ROUGH-HEW, verb transitive ruf'-hew. [rough and hew.] 1. To hew coarsely without smoothing; as, to rough-hew timber. 2. To give the first form or shape to a thing. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI