Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Roughhew \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 approximately and rudely; to roughcast.

            There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew
            them how we will.                     --Shak.