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"To shape crudely; to form in its first rudiments, without correction or polish."
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"(transitive) To shape crudely; to form in its first rudiments, without correction or polish."
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"text": "to roughcast a wall or building"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nahvǎrljam",
"sense": "to shape crudely",
"word": "нахвърлям"
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"sense": "to apply a roughcast finish to",
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"sense": "to apply a roughcast finish to",
"word": "durván bevakol"
}
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"ref": "1833, Timothy Flint, Don't give up the ship; or, The good son:",
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"ref": "2003, John McPhee, The Founding Fish, page 131:",
"text": "Understand: I'm a roughcast fly fisherman, an empirical self-taught duffer.",
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"ref": "2008, Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel:",
"text": "Objectively speaking, Nick was more handsome, with smaller, more chiseled features. But Hardy's roughcast good looks and self-assurance made Nick look callow.",
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"ref": "2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell:",
"text": "Both had something of the traditional Quaker character, earnest, dour, enduring, scornful of imposed orthodoxies, desirous of spiritual release through a roughcast mysticism.",
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