Brewer's: Rough-hewn

Shaped in the rough, not finished, unpolished, ill-mannered, raw; as a “rough-hewn seaman” (Bacon); a “rough-hewn discourse” (Howel).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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