scabbled

Variant of scabble

transitive verb scabbled, scabbling

to dress or shape (stone) roughly

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

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