scabble
English
Alternative forms
- scapple, scrapple
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).
Verb
scabble (third-person singular simple present scabbles, present participle scabbling, simple past and past participle scabbled)
- To roughly dress stone.