# roughdry
## English
### Etymology

From rough +‎ dry.

### Verb

roughdry (third-person singular simple present roughdries, present participle roughdrying, simple past and past participle roughdried)
* (transitive) In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
** 1906, O. Henry, The Four Million:Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
** 1910, “A Successful Wife”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 23, page 113:From Miss Purchase— who nearly killed herself over his shirts, starching and ironing them, and nearly drove me crazy because she roughdried my clothes — down to the blacksmith's where Stephen took his riding horse to be shod, my husband was a general favorite .
** 1993, Federal personnel manual system:, page 88:This includes looading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing.
* To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.
** 1999, Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play:He had a cough which spoke sometimes of roughdried bricks in a builder's yard, and his calf muscles spoiled the particoloured set of his stockings.

### Adjective

roughdry (comparative more roughdry, superlative most roughdry)
* (of laundry) Having been dried but not ironed.
** 1956, Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, page 526:At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury.
** 1993, Federal personnel manual system:, page 88:This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles.
** 2022, Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall:My washerwoman, confound her for ironing off my shirt-buttons, says that she wears her clothes roughdry, because she can't afford to pay for both washing and ironing.
* (of lumber) Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.
** 1959, Research Notes - Volume 173, page 2:The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking.
** 1964, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 1, page 310:The minimum roughdry thickness of the standard yard board shall be not less than twenty-eight thirty-seconds of an inch, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than twenty-seven thirty-seconds of an inch.
** 1974, Wayne K. Murphey, Richard N. Jorgensen, Wood as an Industrial Arts Material, page 44:The minimum roughdry thickness of finish, common boards, and dimensions of sizes of one or more inches nominal thickness shall be not less than 1/8 inch thicker than the corresponding minimum finished dry thickness, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than 3/32 inch thicker than the corresponding minimum-finished dry thickness .

### References

* OED
* ↑ “roughdry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.