"cabbling" meaning in English

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          "text": "The pieces of iron obtained by cabbling are then heated in another furnace almost to fusion, hammered down into shape, and ultimately drawn out into bar-iron.",
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          "ref": "1878, Robert Hunt, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, volume 1:",
          "text": "Finery iron is smelted with charcoal, and when a soft mass of about two hundredweight is formed it is hammered out into a flat oval from two to four inches in thickness; this is allowed to cool, and is then broken up into small pieces, which is the process of cabbling or scabbling.",
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          "text": "Cabbler (kabbler), n. One who works at cabbling. […]",
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