roughdry

Definitions

1. In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
   transitive
2. To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.

Examples

“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.”

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