The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roughhew \Rough"hew`\, v. t.
To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
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To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To hew coarsely, without smoothing. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely and approximately; to roughcast.
Usage examples of "roughhew".
The younger boy ran his hand lovingly over the irregular roughhewn blocks of its walls.
The Atlas, his head totally encased in a roughhewn, overhanging clifflike boulder held up by his gigantic arms, was pulsatingly alive, feeling intensely the bulk of the world he held.
Whoever would have thought that such a roughhewn face could produce such a charming smile?
November 8, 1923, after Kahr had been speaking for half an hour to some three thousand thirsty burghers, seated at roughhewn tables and quaffing their beer out of stone mugs in the Bavarian fashion, S.
Unlike the roughhewn feel of the rest of the base, this area looked like it might have been transplanted straight from inside a capital starship.
In the days that followed, they built roughhewn log cabins, and planted crops with excellent results.
An hour later, as she drove past the entrance to the lane past the Hall, she noticed that two men were working there, putting in the supports for a roughhewn farm-style gate.
The building was approximately one hundred feet long and of roughhewn wood.
The cheery blaze helped to dispel the cold Scottish weather creeping in through the roughhewn stone walls of the restored farmhouse.
Inside the room was a long, heavy table of roughhewn pine surrounded by crude chairs.
The other musicians resumed their serenade and a few of the villagers struck up a brisk dance, but most were moving toward a line of roughhewn tables laden with food.
Phosphor-tendrils were looped over the roughhewn walls, making the rock look varnished.
The furnishings were roughhewn and plain, but for the first time since leaving home I slept with a roof over my head, even if I was on the floor.
Frantically, he pushed at the dead weight of roughhewn wood which would shortly be the agent of his torturous death.
They had slowly proceeded up the left-hand side of the large tunnel, come at length to a blank wall of roughhewn granite which Vaskos had opined to be probably the foundation of part of the city walls.