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scabble

scabble verb: to roughly dress stone.

Verb

scabble (third-person singular simple present scabbles, present participle scabbling, simple past and past participle scabbled)

  1. To roughly dress stone.

Forms of scabble

third-person singular presentscabbles
present participlescabbling
past participlescabbled
pastscabbled
alternative formscapple
alternative formscrapple

Origin of scabble

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).

Words formed from scabble

Questions about scabble

What does scabble mean?
Scabble means to roughly dress stone.
What part of speech is scabble?
Scabble is a verb.
What is the past tense of scabble?
The past tense of scabble is scabbled.

Words near scabble in the dictionary

  1. scabbiest
  2. scabbily
  3. scabbiness
  4. scabbing
  5. scabbish
  6. scabble
  7. scabbled
  8. scabbler
  9. scabblers
  10. scabbles
  11. scabbling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scabble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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