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roughback

 
Dictionary: rough·back   (rŭf'băk') pronunciation
 
n.

Any of several flatfish with rough skin, especially a species of dab (Hippoglossoides platessoides).


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Architecture: roughback
 


1. A side cut of stone (a slab) having one side sawn and the other rough; cut from a block fed through a gang saw.
2. In masonry, a concealed end of a stone laid as a bondstone.


 
 
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Roughback sea catfish
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