What does roughdry mean?
Roughdry means (transitive) In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing..
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(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.
From Miss Purchase— who nearly killed herself over his shirts, starching and ironing them, and nearly drove me crazy because she roughdried my clothes — down to the blacksmith's where Stephen took his riding horse to be shod, my husband was a general favorite .
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.
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.
This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles.
My washerwoman, confound her for ironing off my shirt-buttons, says that she wears her clothes roughdry, because she can't afford to pay for both washing and ironing.
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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Roughdry means (transitive) In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing..
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Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
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