rough

Not smooth; uneven.

rough hands

rough stone

Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

a rough copy

a rough estimate

Turbulent.

rough sea

rough water

Difficult; trying.

Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.

Crude; unrefined.

His manners are a bit rough, but he means well.

The unmowed part of a golf course.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

In Wellington Street my brother met a couple of sturdy roughs, who had just rushed out of Fleet Street with still wet newspapers and staring placards. "Dreadful catastrophe!" they bawled one to the other down Wellington Street. "Fighting at Weybridge!"

A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.

The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.

A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.

To create in an approximate form.

Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.

On the floor, one beside the other, stood two amphoræ of veined marble-like limestone; one a huge vase 2 feet high and more than 6 feet round, finished and perfect, with two splendid spiral bands; and the other a smaller vase, of the same type, but only just roughed out of the block.

To break the rules by being excessively violent.

[…] roughing is not a part of the sport, and will not be tolerated. Referees will not permit unfair practices that may cause injury to a contestant, and are held strictly responsible for enforcing these rules.

To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.

To render rough; to roughen.

To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.

To Rough Horses, a word in familiar use among the dragoons to signify the act of breaking in horses, so as to adapt them to military purposes.