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Definition of Roughing
1. rough [v] - See also: rough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roughing
Literary usage of Roughing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"His new book, roughing It,1 had had a large advance sale, ... In a different way
roughing It is quite as remarkable as The 1 It was Bliss who had given the ..."
2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"His new book, roughing It,1 had had a large advance sale, ... In a different way
roughing It is quite as remarkable as The 1 It was Bliss who had given the ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"roughing IT. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). With Illustrations. Hartford,
Conn.: American Publishing Company. This is a goodly volume, of nearly six ..."
4. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Scrubbing or roughing Filters.—Scrubbers are rapid coarse-grained filters through
... Scrubbers, also known as roughing filters, consist of some porous ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A, First roughing rolls. B, Second ditto, C, Guide rolls for ovals or diamonds.
D, Ditto for rounds or squares, £, Driving pinions. Engine, 30 in. ..."
6. Mechanical Engineering and Machine Shop Practice by Stanley Holmes Moore (1908)
"On account of its shape and owing to its being nd with both top and side rake,
it easily removes the chip may be used on either roughing or finishing cuts. ..."
7. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel: Theoretical and Practical: in All Its by Henry Stafford Osborn (1869)
"If the roughing rollers are in such condition as to draw as fast as the squeezer
... roughing Rollers. The shingled blooms are conveyed directly from the ..."
8. Handbook of Small Tools: Comprising Threading Tools, Taps, Dies, Cutters by Erik Oberg (1908)
"In general practice the roughing die is obtained simply by adjusting a regular
spring screw die of standard size to cut a certain amount oversize. ..."
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