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Roughhew
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
2. To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape appromaxitely and rudely; to roughcast. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will. Shak.