Roughwork

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety or smoothness. dated, rare, transitive

    "we will not suppose that the Grooves are of an equal depth with the Rough-working of the Gouge"

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"we will not suppose that the Grooves are of an equal depth with the Rough-working of the Gouge"

Etymology

From rough + work.

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