to rough it

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to rough it - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rough \Rough\, v. t.
     1. To render rough; to roughen.
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     2. To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
        --Crabb.
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     3. To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as,
        to rough out a carving, a sketch.
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     Roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a
        bloom of iron to bars.
  
     To rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live
        without ordinary comforts.
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