English Explanatory Dictionary

scabble

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To roughly dress stone.

Word forms

scabble scabbles scabbling scabbled scapple scrapple

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).

Derived words

scabbler
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