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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Roughhew

· Rough·hew · IPA
01 v. t. To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
  1. 1.
    To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
  2. 2.
    To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast.
    “There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will.” Shak.