🪨 To shape roughly 🏠 To coat with plaster 🧱 A coarse plaster 📐 A basic model

to roughcast

9.3

To cover a wall with a coarse plaster to give a rough surface

verb
/ˈrʌfˌkæst/

: revocar

The builders will roughcast the exterior walls to give the house a rustic look.

Examples

It took the mason all day to roughcast the garden wall.
We need to roughcast the exterior soon.
They roughcasted the old stone cottage as part of the renovation project.
They roughcasted the walls last summer.
The builders will roughcast the exterior walls to give the house a rustic look.
It took the mason all day to roughcast the garden wall.
We need to roughcast the exterior soon.

How Textured

to pebble

6.1

to roughcast

9.3

render

4 8.4

plaster

53 2.7

to paint

854 1.0

Surface Forms

roughcast infinitive

roughcasted past

roughcasted past participle

roughcasting present participle

roughcasts third person singular

Morphology

roughcast = rough + cast (semi-transparent) = rough + cast

The compound literally combines 'rough' and 'cast', but 'cast' as a term for a plaster coating is specialized and may not be known to learners.

Etymology

The word roughcast joins rough ('not smooth') and cast ('to throw on' or 'to lay down'). Builders used to throw a rough mix of plaster onto walls, so to roughcast a wall means to coat it with that textured plaster.