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, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

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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