What does "roughcast" mean?
Roughcast: To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
Additional senses
- 2.To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.
- 3.A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
- 4.A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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