Rough"hew` (?), v. t.
1.
To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
2.
To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape appromaxitely and rudely; to roughcast.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Roughhew them how we will.
Shak.
© Webster 1913.