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scabble, v.|ˈskæb(ə)l|
Also 7 skable, 7–9 scable.
[Later variant of scapple.]
1. trans. To rough-dress (stone).
1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent ii. 238 As the chezil is actiue, not onely in scabling the stone, but in giuing forme to the Statue. 1624Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lvi, To Blisse one daie scabling stone for the kitchen range att the stone pitts. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §939 Stones are said to be scappled or scabbled when they are dressed with the pick end of the hammer. 1848Acc. Quarrendon Church 7 The external walls are built with random-jointed squared ashlar, scabbled. 1852T. Wright Celt, Roman, & Saxon v. 154 The facings of the stones in Hadrian's Wall are sometimes roughly tooled, or, as it is technically termed, scabbled with the pick.
2. Iron-manuf. = cabble v.
1849,1875[see cabble v.].
Hence ˈscabbler, a workman whose occupation is scabbling; a hammer used in rough-dressing stone; ˈscabbling vbl. n., rough-dressing; concr. in pl., chips of stone; attrib. in scabbling-axe, scabbling-hammer = scabbler.
1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Scablines, chippings of stone. North. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 537 The only preparation the stones undergo, is that of knocking off the sharp angles with the thick end of a tool called a scabling hammer. 1843Holtzapffel Turning, etc. I. 171 The scabblers use heavy pointed picks. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 86 Scabbler. 1881Leic. Gloss. 231 Scabblings, the chips or refuse of stone made in scabbling it. Ibid., Scabble, to rough dress stone with an axe for the purpose, called a Scabbling-axe. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss. II. 597 The tool used for the purpose [scabbling] is variously called a ‘scaplar’ or ‘scabbler’. |