Definition of Roughcasting

1. Verb. (present participle of roughcast) ¹

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Definition of Roughcasting

1. roughcast [v] - See also: roughcast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roughcasting

rough sledding
rough strain
rough trees
rough trot
rough up
rough up the bullpen
rough water
roughage
roughages
roughback
roughbacks
roughcast
roughcaster
roughcasters
roughcasting (current term)
roughcasts
roughdrawn
roughdried
roughdries
roughdry
roughdrying
roughed
roughed up
roughen
roughen up
roughened
roughening
roughens
rougher

Literary usage of Roughcasting

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

1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archeological by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society (1888)
"Paid to Richard Robinson for 3 daies roughcasting of the south side of the steeple and some other places upon the higher & lower leads .... iiis vid Paid to ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1865)
"The tower remains untouched, (if we except the roughcasting which the whole church endured little more than a century later,) and forms a good specimen of ..."

3. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, Adolphus William Ward, William Alfred Packard (1902)
"... and abundant stone-quarries ; and to the limestone found in these it was contrived to give by roughcasting an effulgence similar to that of marble. ..."

4. The Panorama of Professions and Trades: Or Every Man's Book by Edward Hazen (1836)
"What is said of roughcasting ? THE SLATER. 1. For what particular property is slate stone valuable? 2, 3. Whence are obtained the slates used in the United ..."

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