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Meanings of rough-cut in English

Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste.

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Of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing.

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Examples for "roughhewn"
Examples for "roughhewn"
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Her fingernails gently scratched on the roughhewn surface of the table.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
2
A double crib of roughhewn logs, it was built to stay.
Blue Ridge Country
3
He pointed to a small, roughhewn cabin nestled in a cluster of fir trees.
Hush: a novel
4
They were roosting from the roughhewn overheads, huge, the size of crows or rooks.
Night Shift
5
Above them was a tinge of red hair set on a roughhewn, pockmarked skull.
The hunchback assignments
Usage of rough-cut in English
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In her rough-cut features there was an element of lurking malevolence.
The Goose Man
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A stack of rough-cut lumber toppled, spilled across the dusty ground.
Dogs of war
3
The smell was of dust and dry grass, gasoline and heat-cured, rough-cut wood.
Shadow men
4
The cottage came in view, and a bright light streamed through the rough-cut window.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
5
Arches in brickwork may be classed under three heads: plain arches, rough-cut and gauged.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bréquigny, Louis George...
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We passed alongside the city wall, rough-cut stone with torches flaring in their sockets.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Though the room was a simple cone of rough-cut rock, its magic was manifest.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
8
The room beyond is spacious, floored in rough-cut timber, and walled in glass-fronted cabinets.
The Jennifer Morgue
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Nish examined the paper, which was rough-cut on three sides, razor smooth on the fourth.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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I saw a rough-cut and thought it was sensational.
The Guardian
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He stood there, gripping the bamboo rail, while Vinnevra and I climbed the rough-cut steps.
Halo Primordium
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In fact, even that last image took some coaxing; during rough-cut screenings she was more tentative.
The Guardian
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That rough-cut teenage warrior is virtually unrecognisable today.
The Guardian
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She put it gingerly on a rough-cut board.
Timescape
15
The canal wall was vertical but the stonework was ancient and rough-cut; I tried to scale it.
Anathem
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The currency was rough-cut and crudely printed.
The Scar