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roughcast

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Adjective
 : 
rough=cast

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun roughcast has 2 senses

Verb roughcast has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

roughcastv. t. 
  •  To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.  [1913 Webster]
roughcastn. 
  •  A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

roughcast, n., adj., & v.
--n. plaster of lime and gravel, used on outside walls.
--adj.
1 (of a wall etc.) coated with roughcast.
2 (of a plan etc.) roughly formed, preliminary.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -cast)
1 coat (a wall) with roughcast.
2 prepare (a plan, essay, etc.) in outline.

THESAURUS

roughcast

arrested, backward, bat out, block out, botch, broken, bumpy, bungle, carve, cast, cement, chisel, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, concrete, corrugated, create, cross-grained, crude, cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, efform, embryonic, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge up, grainy, granulated, grout, hew, homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal, irregular, jolty, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, linsey-woolsey, mastic, mint, model, mold, mortar, oversimple, parget, patch, patch together, patch up, pimply, pitted, plaster, pocky, potholed, pound out, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough out, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughhew, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, sculpt, sculpture, set, shagged, shaggy, shape, simplistic, slap up, stamp, stucco, stunted, tailor, textured, thermoform, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, whomp up, wimpled, work
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