Meanings
verbscale off (third-person singular simple present scales off, present participle scaling off, simple past and past participle scaled off)
present singular third person scales off · participle present scaling off · participle past scaled off · past scaled off
- To peel off
Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
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