roughoutn.
/ˈrʌfaʊt/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌaʊt/ 1. A work produced in rough or preliminary form.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > rough preliminary draft
scantling1567
rough-hew1641
idea1648
rough1699
roughout1905
1905 F. T. Hodgson Pract. Wood Carving vi. 242 No. 1 shows the slip sketched out, No. 2 the rough-out.
?1961 J. Ciardi Let. in E. M. Cifelli J. Ciardi (1998) 263 Please understand as you read inclosed rough-rough-rough out. Can you blend it with last year's letter?
1995 J. Wannamaker in Carving Full Moon Saloon 94/1 It wasn't a beautiful, detailed rough-out, but it sure put the basic shapes where they needed to be.
2. Archaeology. An artefact abandoned at a preparatory stage of manufacture but having the intended final shape apparent. Cf. to rough out 1 at rough v.2 Phrasal verbs 4.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun]
pattern1324
exemplara1382
examplec1425
mould1549
prototype1552
last1573
prototypon1586
precedent1597
archetype1605
protoplast1612
idea1648
protype1656
progenitor1790
roughout1913
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts
scyphus1722
ceraunite1814
skyphos1847
shaft-hole1852
ostracon1853
scramasax1862
shard1865
ovate1872
omphalos1884
stop-ridge1894
tsung1904
pygmy flint1907
spacer1907
dotaku1908
yuan1912
roughout1913
rostro-carinate1919
shawabti1922
racloir1923
shoe-last1927
sleeve1929
ard1931
proto-biface1967
1913 Bedrock July 172 As flint is practically indestructible it is not to be wondered at that we meet with many of these ‘rough outs’ in implementiferous gravels and other deposits.
1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 47 407/1 About 150 flakes and rough-outs were found to every complete implement.
1936 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 2 214 Some sixty odd specimens were found most of which were implements gone wrong in the manufacture or rough-outs never proceeded with.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. v. 120 Unfinished roughouts are found associated with factory debris.
2007 Brit. Archaeol. Sept.–Oct. 24/2 (caption) Flaking debris and axehead roughouts in a rock shelter floor on Monte Viso.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
roughoutadj.
/ˈrʌfaʊt/, U.S. /ˈrəfˌaʊt/ U.S.
Of a leather garment, boot, saddle, etc.: that has the rough or suede side outwards.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [adjective] > prepared or finished in specific way
semys1508
well-curried?1562
chamoised1620
fire-cured1844
shamoyed1857
sueded1888
oozed1897
mulled1919
patent1953
roughout1957
1957 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 30 June b10/2 (advt.) Roughout saddle.
1963 New Yorker 29 June 75 Chinos, shirts, roughout jackets.
1974 E. F. Prince & G. M. Collier Basic Horsemanship ii. 36 Try to avoid carved leather in an everyday saddle. Plain leather, either smooth or roughout, is more comfortable on trail rides.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 21/5 One scuffed cowboy boot sits poised atop the other; the baggy, rough-out trousers are..slung low beneath the prodigious belly.
1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 419 Roughout boot with full-grain sueded leather upper.
1990 J. Welch Indian Lawyer 244 Sylvester changed into Levi's, plaid flannel shirt, and worn rough-out boots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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