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Definition of Rough out
1. Verb. Prepare in preliminary or sketchy form.
Definition of Rough out
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to produce (a plan, diagram etc.) in rough ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough Out
Literary usage of Rough out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Practical Machinist: Embracing Lathe Work, Vise Work, Drills by Joshua Rose (1876)
"If however, we first rough out the plain part or stem of the rod and then rough
out and finish the taper part, we may then fasten the piston head to its ..."
2. The Complete Practical Machinist: Embracing Lathe Work, Vise Work, Drills by Joshua Rose (1894)
"It can be applied to either rough out or finish steel, ... This, therefore, is
the position in which the graver is held to rough out the work. Fig. 147. ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The graver can be applied either to rough out or finish steel, wrought iron, ...
This, therefore, is the position in which it is held to rough out the work. ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"air-agitated Pachuca tanks, where it is treated; first, with recovered zinc sludge
from the purification classifiers, to rough out the copper, ..."
5. The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1914)
"They also rough out the wooden materials for bows intended for sale to men ...
While the Bear Lake men have to rough out each piece from the green wood and ..."
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