单词 | roughcasting |
释义 | roughcastingn. 1. concrete. = roughcast n. 2a.Recorded earliest in the compound roughcasting sand. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > rough-cast or pebble-dash daubing1382 roughcasting1469 temper1594 roughcast1596 rough mortar1703 rough coating1791 slapdash1796 pebble-dashing1826 pebble-dash1831 harl1869 1469 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 191 [For work at Launceston] roghcastyngsonde. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Crusta The harde..cruste that any thynge is couered with:..the playster of a wall or rough castyng. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 ii. iii. 77 They serued..halfe a cheese harder then it were made of rough-casting. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Incrustation A making or becomeing hard on the outside, like a crust, a rough-casting, or pargetting. 1702 ‘T. Snow’ Apiroscopy i. 8 Of a Serviceable and useful Plaster,..the which they call Rough-casting. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 380 Rough-casting is an outside finishing cheaper than stucco. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 80 On the inside of the walls the plaster still clings here and there,—coarse, however, as modern rough-casting. 2000 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 16 I know for a fact that a lot of rough casting on the walls is sound. 2. The action or an act of coating a wall, house, etc., with roughcast plaster. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > with specific substance pargeting1396 teering1426 parging1502 mortaring1559 roughcasting1565 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus sig. FFFfff 2v/2 Tectórium,..the plaisterynge, pargettynge, or rough castyng of walles. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Crespissement, a pargetting, rough-casting. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 236 River-sand is very good for Rough-casting of Walls. 1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 296 An admirable theory of the operation of roughcasting. 1806 S. W. Johnson Rural Econ. i. xiv. 68 For rough-casting, one workman and his labourer are sufficient for a small building. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §529 Roughcasting, or Harling as it is called in Scotland, is a mode of outside finishing well calculated to protect walls from the weather. 1908 L. Milman Sir C. Wren xii. 164 The early nineteenth century, a period which is equally guilty of the rough-casting of the brick walls and their colouring to that monotonous dinginess. 1977 S. Wales Echo 18 Jan. (advt.) Pebble Dashing, Spar Dashing, Rough-casting, all types of Plastering carried out. 2008 Sunday Mail (Scotland) (Nexis) 27 July (Features section) 6 Other services they provide are roughcasting and rendering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1469 |
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