[skab-uh
l] 
| to shape or dress (stone) roughly. |
| scab·ble (skāb'əl) tr.v. scab·bled, scab·bling, scab·bles To work or dress (stone) roughly, preliminary to fine tooling. [Middle English scaplen, from Old North French escapler, to dress timber : es-, off (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + capler, to cut (from Vulgar Latin *capulāre, *cappulāre).] |