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Noah Webster

Rough-hewn

ROUGH-HEWN, participle passive or a ruf'-hewn.

1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing.

2. Rugged; unpolished; of coarse manners; rude.

A rough-hewn seaman.

3. Unpolished; not nicely finished.

 

 

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