Meaning of roughdry | Babel Free

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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