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rough

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rough
1. a sketch or preliminary piece of artwork
2. the rough Golf the part of the course bordering the fairways where the grass is untrimmed
3. Tennis Squash Badminton the side of a racket on which the binding strings form an uneven line

rough [rəf]
(lapidary)
An uncut gemstone.


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She was cracking walnuts and picking them out of the shells, throwing out a remark occasionally to a rough man in a rabbit-skin cap, with straps under the knees of his corduroy trousers, who stood puffing a black clay pipe with his back against the wall.
The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet.
And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life?
 
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