Definition of Rough-sand

1. Verb. Sand roughly. "Rough-sand the door before painting it"

Generic synonyms: Sand, Sandpaper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough-sand

rough-and-tumbles
rough-and-tumbling
rough-cut
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 (current term)
rough-skinned newt
rough-spoken
rough-stemmed goldenrod
rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum
rough-textured
rough and ready
rough and tumble
rough and tumbles
rough around the edges
rough bindweed
rough breathing
rough breathings
rough collie

Literary usage of Rough-sand

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

1. The Expert Calciminer: Containing Full Directions for Mixing and Applying by Albanis Ashmun Kelly (1912)
"Size for Rough Sand Finish Walls.—Use the soap- alum-glue size, which see. A size made with one-half pound each of soap, alum and glue, each in a one-half ..."

2. I.C.S. Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of by International Correspondence Schools (1909)
"There are several kinds of finishing coats, such as troweled stucco, rough sand finish, hard-finish while coat, etc. In aTl cases, the material is applied ..."

3. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1900)
"If a piece of pipe be covered with insulating paint, exposing only the rough sand-pocked exterior surface, and if it be made an anode in an electrolytic ..."

4. Successful Houses and how to Build Them by Charles Elmer White (1912)
"When rough sand finish is desired, the material composing the final coat is mixed with rough sand, and this is floated on the wall by ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1905)
"In other parts the rock has become disintegrated to the consistency of rough sand to a depth of 2 feet under the soil, and it was in the rough sand that ..."

6. Object lessons and how to give them by George Ricks (1883)
"I put a little rough sand at the bottom. That forms one bed. Now I sprinkle a little small coal over the rough sand. That stands for a bed of coal. ..."

7. Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home by Christine Frederick, American School of Home Economics (1919)
"Above this wainscoting, plaster in either of its two main finishes—smooth "hard trowel" or "rough sand"—can be employed. The entire wall may be finished in ..."

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