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Meanings of roughhewn in English

Of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing.

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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...
Usage of roughhewn in English
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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
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Above them was a tinge of red hair set on a roughhewn, pockmarked skull.
The hunchback assignments
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It was roughhewn by Chrysler for Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canada & custom-finished by Ghia in Italy.
The new yorker
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Virtually everything is roughhewn and transparently bogus.
The Irish Times
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Nevertheless, the altar has been left there-analtar of unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone.
Les Misérables
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She crawled from a nest of blankets on the stone floor and felt the roughhewn confines of her stone and wood cell.
Carrion comfort
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His face was of the roughhewn type, in his two upper-class years his heavy frame had taken on a vast amount of brawn and muscle.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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