rough-sawn

[ ruhf-sawn ]

adjective

1. (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding:

   shingles of rough-sawn cedar.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rough-sawn¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

I thanked the architect or carpenter who had come up with the idea to use interlocking rough-sawn cedar to create a shade screen that measured 12 by 16 feet.

From Seattle Times

Other steps include roughening the interior walls of the hive by scratching the wood with a rasp or building the hive with rough-sawn lumber to encourage the production of propolis, a mixture of resins, beeswax and other materials made by the bees that boosts the colony’s ability to fight bacterial and fungal infections.

From Washington Post

“You don’t have to go back very far where you’re dealing with rough-sawn lumber that was milled locally, and stone that was quarried from the house site you were building from,” Mr. Dannels said.

From New York Times

The wet bar on the lower level is made from rough-sawn cedar.

From Washington Post

A smile cracking his white beard, the hut’s caretaker greeted us and placed a bottle of rakija—a local moonshine—on a rough-sawn picnic table.

From Wall Street Journal