roughdry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched."
- "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 ."
- "This includes looading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
roughdries (present, singular)
roughdrying (participle, present)
roughdried (participle, past)
roughdried (past)
more roughdry (comparative)
most roughdry (superlative)