scabble

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verb

To roughly dress stone.

OriginMiddle English scaplen ← Old French escapler ← Latin ex- →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person scabbles · participle present scabbling · participle past scabbled · past scabbled · alternative scapple · alternative scrapple

  1. To roughly dress stone.

Origin

  1. Latinex-
  2. Old Frenchescapler“to dress timber”
  3. Middle Englishscaplen
  4. Englishscabble

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).

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