单词 | rough-bore |
释义 | > as lemmasrough-bore a. With transitive verbs, as rough-bore, rough-edit, rough-hull, rough-land, rough-mill, rough-school, rough-sort, etc. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 694/2 I rougheheawe a pece of tymber to make an ymage of, or to put to some byldyng, je charpis. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 155 They generally Rough-plain their Boards for Flooring. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 136 When the scantlings are large, I lay them, after they are rough-wrought, to soak in a pond of water. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 3 They..could not conveniently get the Ruins at that Time removed, therefore, they only just rough-levelled them. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §81 I immediately rough-turned a piece of wood. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. ii. App. 50 After kiln-drying the barley, it is put into the mill, and rough hulled. 1829 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters I. 111 Having received an agreeable letter from Dr. Franklin he rough-wrote an answer. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. 66 [He] had rough-ploughed a thousand acres or so of his best land. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 18 At first it is rough bored, should it not have been cast hollow. 1909 Country Life 23 Oct. 577/1 One could see him rough-schooling younger brothers and companions. 1945 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 6 July in War Diaries (2002) 703 It is only as a very last resort that I should order British troops to rough handle Canadians who are giving trouble. 1969 W. Rutherford Gallows Set iv. 55 This film has already been rough-edited. 1978 Cahiers de Lexicologie 32 31 Assembling and rough-sorting a citation collection. 2000 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 22 Apr. f7 [The boards] almost certainly will have come..from the same sawmill and were rough-milled to the same thickness. < as lemmas |
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