roughing rolls

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To render rough; to roughen. [1913 Webster]

2.To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. --Crabb. [1913 Webster]

3.To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch. [1913 Webster]

Roughing rolls, rolls for reducing, in a rough manner, a bloom of iron to bars.

To rough it, to endure hard conditions of living; to live without ordinary comforts. [1913 Webster]