rough

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The unmowed part of a golf course.
3. Not smooth; uneven
4. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
5. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished
6. A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
7. Turbulent
8. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
9. Difficult; trying
10. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
11. Crude; unrefined
12. Boisterous weather.
    obsolete
13. A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.

Equivalents

Examples

“In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet⟳ newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"”

“In calms you fish⟳; in roughs use⟳ songs and dances.”

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