"scabble" meaning in English

See scabble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: scabbles [present, singular, third-person], scabbling [participle, present], scabbled [participle, past], scabbled [past]
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). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scaplen}} Middle English scaplen, {{der|en|fro|escapler||to dress timber}} Old French escapler (“to dress timber”), {{der|en|la|ex-|}} Latin ex-, {{uder|en|VL.|-}} Vulgar Latin Head templates: {{en-verb}} scabble (third-person singular simple present scabbles, present participle scabbling, simple past and past participle scabbled)
  1. To roughly dress stone. Synonyms: scapple, scrapple

Inflected forms

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