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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roughcast \Rough`cast"\, v. t.
     1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision,
        correction, or polish. --Dryden.
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     2. To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with


        asperities and inequalities.
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     3. To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles;
        as, to roughcast a building.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roughcast \Rough"cast`\, n.
     1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
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     2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of
        shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roughcast
       n 1: a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
       2: a rough preliminary model
       v 1: shape roughly
       2: apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall"
       3: hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone
          or timber" [syn: {rough-hew}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "roughcast":
     arrested, backward, bat out, block out, botch, broken, bumpy,
     bungle, carve, cast, cement, chisel, choppy, coarse,
     coarse-grained, concrete, corrugated, create, cross-grained, crude,
     cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand,
     efform, embryonic, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form,
     formalize, found, frame, fudge up, grainy, granulated, grout, hew,
     homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal,
     irregular, jolty, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out,
     knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, linsey-woolsey,
     mastic, mint, model, mold, mortar, oversimple, parget, patch,
     patch together, patch up, pimply, pitted, plaster, pocky, potholed,
     pound out, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough,
     rough out, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughhew,
     roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty,
     sculpt, sculpture, set, shagged, shaggy, shape, simplistic,
     slap up, stamp, stucco, stunted, tailor, textured, thermoform,
     throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together,
     trifle with, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
     underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished,
     unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked,
     unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform,
     unworked, unwrought, whomp up, wimpled, work
  
  

















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