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roughworked

roughworked is the simple past and past participle of roughwork.

Meaning of roughwork

Verb

roughwork (third-person singular simple present roughworks, present participle roughworking, simple past and past participle roughworked)

  1. (dated, rare, transitive) To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety or smoothness.
    • we will not suppose that the Grooves are of an equal depth with the Rough-working of the Gouge1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published...

Questions about roughworked

What is roughworked the simple past and past participle of?
Roughworked is the simple past and past participle of roughwork.

Words near roughworked in the dictionary

  1. Roughtons
  2. Roughts
  3. roughwing
  4. roughwings
  5. roughwork
  6. roughworked
  7. roughworking
  8. roughworks
  9. roughy
  10. rouging
  11. Rouillard

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