rough setter (rufset"er)

A mason who builds rough walls, as distinguished from one who hews also. Bacon, Spurious Apophthegins, 6. roughshod (ruf's hod), a. Shod with shoes armed IMG:content-2515.png:[blocks in formation] rough-hewer (rufʼhū"ėr), n. [ Laying the roughies to keep the cauld wind frae you. Scott, Guy Manner ing, liv. roughing-drill (ruf'ing-dril), n. See drilll. roughing-hole (ruf'ing-hol), n. In metal., a hole into which iron from the blast-furnace is sometimes allowed to run. with points or calks: as, a horse is said to be roughshod when his shoes are roughed or sharpened for slippery roads. — To ride roughshod. See ride.