Roughdry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Roughdry is a verb meaning (transitive) In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
Meaning
(transitive) In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
More Meanings
- To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.
- (of laundry) Having been dried but not ironed.
- (of lumber) Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.
Example Sentences
Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking.
This includes looading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing.
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.
Word Forms
- roughdries
- roughdrying
- roughdried
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include line-dry, drip-dry, fluff-dry, air-dry, spin-dry, updry.
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