producing or earning only a very small amount; barren: a hardscrabble farm, life, etc.
hardscrabble
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hardscrabble
adjective
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
noun
Barren or marginal farmland.
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Adjective
(comparative more hardscrabble, superlative most hardscrabble)
- Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive.
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