roughcast

plural roughcasts

1. countableuncountableA crude model.

   All the objects left in or near the quarries are unfinished roughcasts.

   1986, Pierre Vérin, The History of Civilisation in North Madagascar, page 280

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   The whole piece […]seems […]a loose model and roughcast of what I design to do.

   1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC

   They first attached the paper-cuttings directly onto the roughcast of china, then they applied glaze to it.

   2005, China's Ethnic Groups - Issues 1-4

   In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.

   2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV

   Powder pressing, also known as mould pressing or isostatic pressing, involves processing ceramic powder into components or roughcasts to be sintered to certain sizes, shapes, density, and stiffness.

   2017, Yufeng Jin, Zhiping Wang, Jing Chen, Introduction to Microsystem Packaging Technology, page 43

2. countableuncountableA rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall.

   The branches met overhead in a kind of bower and the three cops stood in the shade and studied the roughcast gable of the cottage, maybe fifty yards on up the hill.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 444

   Synonyms: pebbledash

3. countableuncountableA mixture of pebbles or similar material used to finish a plaster or concrete wall.

present singular third person roughcasts · participle present roughcasting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes roughcasted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes roughcasted

1. transitiveTo shape crudely; to form in its first rudiments, without correction or polish.

   This rough cast unhewn poetry was instead of stage plays for 120 years

   1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

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   Nor bodily, nor ghostly negro could / Rough-ccast thy figure in a sadder mould.

   1656, John Cleveland, The Kings Disguise

   Dutt (1913) states that madraspatanum wasps build all their cells and then roughcast the whole group together, i.e. that they make a crepissage.

   1968, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society - Volume 65, page 159

   In particular, it seeks to elucidate the five path system, which was roughcasted at the time of Abhidharma Buddhism and later improved in terms of more comprehensive definition and fruition by Mahayana Buddhism.

   1998, Jen-Kuan Shih, The Way to Enlightenment: Theory and Practice of Buddhist Path System

   However, although steam-powered machines were used in the 19th century also to roughcast and polish mass-produced lenses for everyday use of just a few centimeters in diameter (for glasses and lorgnettes, opera glasses and small cheap telescopes), those of the best quality, used mainly in optical equipment, were still manufactured and finished off by hand, one by one.

   2002, Raimonda Riccini, Taking Eyeglasses Seriously

2. To apply a roughcast finish to.

   to roughcast a wall or building

comparative more roughcast · superlative most roughcast

1. Unpolished.

   Understand: I'm a roughcast fly fisherman, an empirical self-taught duffer.

   2003, John McPhee, The Founding Fish, page 131

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   A brilliant blaze, kindled with dry wood, enlightened the whole interior of this fresh looking, roughcast, timbered apartment.

   1833, Timothy Flint, Don't give up the ship; or, The good son

   Objectively speaking, Nick was more handsome, with smaller, more chiseled features. But Hardy's roughcast good looks and self-assurance made Nick look callow.

   2008, Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel

   Both had something of the traditional Quaker character, earnest, dour, enduring, scornful of imposed orthodoxies, desirous of spiritual release through a roughcast mysticism.

   2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell