The Collaborative International Dictionary
To rough it
Rough \Rough\, v. t.
To render rough; to roughen.
To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
--Crabb.-
To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
Roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars.
To rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts.