roughdry

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roughdry

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From rough + dry.

verb roughdries · roughdrying · roughdried

transitive 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.
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.

adjective more roughdry · most roughdry

of laundry Having been dried but not ironed. At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury.
of lumber 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.

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@misc{roughdry_2026,
  title = {roughdry},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roughdry},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}