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Roughcast

verb
1.
Shape roughly.
2.
Apply roughcast to.
3.
Hew roughly, without finishing the surface.  Synonym: rough-hew.
noun
1.
A coarse plaster for the surface of external walls.
2.
A rough preliminary model.





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"Roughcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... settler is ready to build, let him put up a good frame, roughcast, or stone-house, if he can possibly raise the means, as stone, timber, and lime, cost nothing but the labour of collecting and carrying the materials. When I say that they "cost nothing," I mean that no cash is required ...
— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland
... roughcast, doth present Wall, that vile Wall, which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper. At the which let no man wonder. This man, with lanthorn, dog and bush of thorn, Presenteth Moonshine; ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR


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