scabble

English

Etymology

From Middle English scaplen, from Old French escapler (“to dress timber”), from es- (“off”) (from Latin ex-) + capler (“to cut”) (from Vulgar Latin *capulre, *cappulre).

Verb

scabble (third-person singular simple present scabbles, present participle scabbling, simple past and past participle scabbled)

  1. To roughly dress stone.
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