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Rough-hew

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface.

    "Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will."

  2. 2
    hew roughly, without finishing the surface wordnet

Etymology

From rough + hew.

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