Roughcast

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A coarse plaster of lime, shells, and pebbles used for outside wall surfaces.
  • n. A rough preliminary model or form.
  • v. To plaster (a wall, for example) with roughcast.
  • v. To shape or work into a rough or preliminary form.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A crude model.
  • n. A rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall.
  • n. A mixture of pebbles or similar material used to finish a plaster or concrete wall.
  • v. To shape crudely.
  • v. To apply a roughcast finish to a wall.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
  • v. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
  • v. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles.
  • n. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
  • n. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of plastering for an external wall, composed of an almost fluid mixture of clean gravel and lime, dashed on the wall, to which it adheres.
  • To form roughly or crudely; compose or shape in a rudimental manner; block out in the rough: as, to rough-cast a model; to rough-cast a story or an essay.
  • To cover with a coarse semi-fluid plaster by casting or throwing it: as, to rough-cast a wall. See the noun.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
  • v. shape roughly
  • v. hew roughly, without finishing the surface
  • n. a rough preliminary model
  • v. apply roughcast to
    • Verb Form
    roughcasted    roughcasting    roughcasts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plaster    work    mold    mould    form   
    Cross Reference
    rough-cast pottery   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pebbledash   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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