'Roughcast' definitions:
Definition of 'roughcast'
(from WordNet)
noun
A coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
noun
A rough preliminary model
verb
Shape roughly
verb
Apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall"
verb
Hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone or timber" [syn: rough-hew, roughcast]
Definition of 'Roughcast'
From: GCIDE
- Roughcast \Rough`cast"\, v. t.
- 1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Roughcast'
From: GCIDE
- Roughcast \Rough"cast`\, n.
- 1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roughcast'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrested,
- backward,
- bat out,
- block out,
- botch,
- broken,
- bumpy,
- bungle,
- carve,
- cast,
- cement,
- chisel,
- choppy,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- concrete,
- corrugated,
- create,
- cross-grained,
- crude,
- cut,
- dash off,
- do anyhow,
- do by halves,
- do carelessly,
- do offhand,
- efform,
- embryonic,
- fake up,
- fashion,
- figure,
- fix,
- forge,
- form,
- formalize,
- found,
- frame,
- fudge up,
- grainy,
- granulated,
- grout,
- hew,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in the rough,
- inequal,
- irregular,
- jolty,
- jury-rig,
- knead,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knock together,
- lash up,
- lay out,
- lick into shape,
- linsey-woolsey,
- mastic,
- mint,
- model,
- mold,
- mortar,
- oversimple,
- parget,
- patch,
- patch together,
- patch up,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- plaster,
- pocky,
- potholed,
- pound out,
- rank,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough out,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- roughhew,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- ruffled,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- set,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shape,
- simplistic,
- slap up,
- stamp,
- stucco,
- stunted,
- tailor,
- textured,
- thermoform,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- toss together,
- trifle with,
- unblown,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unhewn,
- unkempt,
- unlabored,
- unlevel,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unrefined,
- unsmooth,
- untreated,
- ununiform,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- whomp up,
- wimpled,
- work