roughdry

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

   • Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
   • This includes looading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing.
2. 2

   To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Having been dried but not ironed.

   • This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles.
   • My washerwoman, confound her for ironing off my shirt-buttons, says that she wears her clothes roughdry, because she can't afford to pay for both washing and ironing.
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   1. 4

      Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.

      • The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking.
      • The minimum roughdry thickness of the standard yard board shall be not less than twenty-eight thirty-seconds of an inch, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than twenty-seven thirty-seconds of an inch.

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