Sekirov Dictionary

roughdry

adjective 2
verb 2
forms 5

adjective2

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Having been dried but not ironed.
- My washerwoman, confound her for ironing off my shirt-buttons, says that she wears her clothes roughdry, because she can't afford to pay for both washing and ironing. — 2022
•
Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.
- The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking. — 1959

verb2

•
In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
- Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched. — 1906
•
To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.
- He had a cough which spoke sometimes of roughdried bricks in a builder's yard, and his calf muscles spoiled the particoloured set of his stockings. — 1999

forms

roughdried · roughdrying · roughdries · more roughdry · most roughdry

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