rougher

Pluralroughers

1. 1
   adjective

   Comparative of rough. Use this when comparing two things and one is more rough than the other.

   The dirt road got rougher as we drove higher into the hills.

   Sandpaper feels much rougher than smooth glass.

   Note
2. 2
   nouncountable

   A worker who shapes a part roughly to get it ready for the final smoothing or finishing.

   Like someone who carves the rough shape of a statue before another person adds the fine details.

   The rougher trimmed the metal block before it went to the polishing bench.

   Each rougher passes the part to a finisher once the basic shape is done.

   Oppositefinisher

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A piece of woolen cloth made ready for fulling, the washing step that cleans and thickens it.

   Like a meal that is cooked but not yet seasoned.

   The weaver set the rougher aside to be cleaned and thickened at the mill.

   Each rougher had to be checked for flaws before it went on for treatment.

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