Hypertext Webster Gateway: "roughcast"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roughcast \Rough`cast"\, v. t.
1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision,
correction, or polish. --Dryden.
2. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with
asperities and inequalities.
3. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles;
as, to roughcast a building.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roughcast \Rough"cast`\, n.
1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of
shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
roughcast
n 1: a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
2: a rough preliminary model
v 1: shape roughly
2: apply roughcast to (as of a wall)
3: hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone
or timber" [syn: {rough-hew}]
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