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scab·ble (skab′əl)

transitive verb scabbled -·bled, scabbling -·bling

to dress or shape (stone) roughly

Etymology: earlier scapple < ME scaplen, aphetic < OFr escapeler, to dress timber < es- (< L ex), intens. + chapler, to cut < Gmc *kappan, to split

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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