Lexicographical Neighbors of Scabbles
Literary usage of Scabbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society by Liverpool Engineering Society, Wilfrid S. Boult, Edward H. Allies, Robert L. Tapscott, Thomas L. Miller, John Henry Tudsbery Tudsbery, R. C. F. Annett (1899)
"He first, in technical language, " scabbles" the stone, that is, he cuts it into
flakes 1 inch and If inch thick, then turning the flakes on their sides ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1920)
"In granite works, a workman who scabbles. (Century) Scabbling. 1. The process of
removing all surface Irregularities from Mocks of stone and thus reducing ..."
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