roughcast

rough +‎ cast

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌfkæst/, /ˈɹʌfkɑːst/

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roughcast (countable and uncountable, plural roughcasts)

1. A crude model.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:

     The whole piece […] seems […] a loose model and roughcast of what I design to do.

   • 1986, Pierre Vérin, The History of Civilisation in North Madagascar, page 280:

     All the objects left in or near the quarries are unfinished roughcasts.

   • 2005, China's Ethnic Groups - Issues 1-4:

     They first attached the paper-cuttings directly onto the roughcast of china, then they applied glaze to it.

   • 2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV:

     In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.

   • 2017, Yufeng Jin, Zhiping Wang, Jing Chen, Introduction to Microsystem Packaging Technology, page 43:

     Powder pressing, also known as mould pressing or isostatic pressing, involves processing ceramic powder into components or roughcasts to be sintered to certain sizes, shapes, density, and stiffness.

2. A rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 444:

     The branches met overhead in a kind of bower and the three cops stood in the shade and studied the roughcast gable of the cottage, maybe fifty yards on up the hill.

3. A mixture of pebbles or similar material used to finish a plaster or concrete wall.

• (rough surface finish): pebbledash

roughcast (third-person singular simple present roughcasts, present participle roughcasting, simple past and past participle roughcast or roughcasted)

1. (transitive) To shape crudely; to form in its first rudiments, without correction or polish.
   • 1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     This rough cast unhewn poetry was instead of stage plays for 120 years

   • 1656, John Cleveland, The Kings Disguise:

     Nor bodily, nor ghostly negro could / Rough-ccast thy figure in a sadder mould.

   • 1968, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society - Volume 65, page 159:

     Dutt (1913) states that madraspatanum wasps build all their cells and then roughcast the whole group together, i.e. that they make a crepissage.

   • 1998, Jen-Kuan Shih, The Way to Enlightenment: Theory and Practice of Buddhist Path System:

     In particular, it seeks to elucidate the five path system, which was roughcasted at the time of Abhidharma Buddhism and later improved in terms of more comprehensive definition and fruition by Mahayana Buddhism.

   • 2002, Raimonda Riccini, Taking Eyeglasses Seriously:

     However, although steam-powered machines were used in the 19th century also to roughcast and polish mass-produced lenses for everyday use of just a few centimeters in diameter (for glasses and lorgnettes, opera glasses and small cheap telescopes), those of the best quality, used mainly in optical equipment, were still manufactured and finished off by hand, one by one.

2. To apply a roughcast finish to.

   to roughcast a wall or building

roughcast (comparative more roughcast, superlative most roughcast)

1. Unpolished.
   • 1833, Timothy Flint, Don't give up the ship; or, The good son:

     A brilliant blaze, kindled with dry wood, enlightened the whole interior of this fresh looking, roughcast, timbered apartment.

   • 2003, John McPhee, The Founding Fish, page 131:

     Understand: I'm a roughcast fly fisherman, an empirical self-taught duffer.

   • 2008, Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel:

     Objectively speaking, Nick was more handsome, with smaller, more chiseled features. But Hardy's roughcast good looks and self-assurance made Nick look callow.

   • 2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell:

     Both had something of the traditional Quaker character, earnest, dour, enduring, scornful of imposed orthodoxies, desirous of spiritual release through a roughcast mysticism.

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