scapple

English

Etymology

Compare Old French eskaper, eschapler (“to cut, hew”), Late Latin scapello. Compare scabble.

Verb

scapple (third-person singular simple present scapples, present participle scappling, simple past and past participle scappled)

  1. (transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
  2. (transitive) To dress (e.g. stone) in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scapple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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