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Definition of Rough-cut

1. Adjective. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste. "The vulgar display of the newly rich"

2. Adjective. Of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough-cut

roues rouet rouets rouge rouge et noir rouge plant rougeberry rouged rouges rough

rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble rough-and-tumbled rough-and-tumbles rough-and-tumbling rough-cut (current term) rough-dry rough-footed rough-grained rough-hew

rough-hewn rough-house rough-leaved rough-leaved aster rough-legged rough-legged buzzard rough-legged buzzards rough-legged hawk rough-sand rough-skinned newt

Literary usage of Rough-cut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This rough-cut arches are those in which the bricks arc roughly cut with an axe to ... may be classed under three heads: plain arches, rough-cut and gauged. ..."

2. The File in History: A Description of the Development of the File from the (1921)
"It is well to bear in mind that a "rough-cut" or coarse file has the least number of teeth to the inch, ..."

3. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"The slates are made wiii rough-cut edges in all thicknesses from ?ie to \\t in, in a combination of various shades carefully selected in such proportion as ..."

4. Estimating by George Stephenson (1897)
"177 ft. run rough-cut chamfer :— This is worth about half the last item; it, ... 21 ft. run rough-cut splay, 5 in. wide :— This is only rough-cutting as ..."

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