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Roughages
- noun - coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
- Fibre
Roughcast
- noun - a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls
- a rough preliminary model
- apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall"
- hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone or timber"
- shape roughly
Roughdraw
- - To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
Roughened
- verb - make rough or rougher; "roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other"
- used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"
Roughhewn
- adjective - of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing
Roughlegs
- noun - large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
Roughneck
- noun - a cruel and brutal fellow
- worker on an oil rig
Roughness
- noun - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
- harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"
- rowdy behavior
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather