Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To dry (laundry) without ironing or smoothing out.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dry but not smoothed or ironed: as, rough-dry clothes.
- To dry by exposure to the air without rubbing, smoothing, ironing, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive In
laundry work, todry withoutsmoothing orironing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dry without smoothing or ironing
Etymologies
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rough + dry
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