roughdry

动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing. transitive
    — Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having been dried but not ironed.
    — At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury.
  2. 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.

词形变化

roughdries present,singular,third-person roughdrying participle,present roughdried participle,past roughdried past more roughdry comparative most roughdry superlative

词源

词源 1
From rough + dry.
词源 2
From rough + dry.
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