roughdrying

Verb

roughdry (third-person singular simple present roughdries, present participle roughdrying, simple past and past participle roughdried)

1. (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.1906, O. Henry, The Four Million
2. 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, Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play

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