to work smoothly, without smoothing to a finish
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• (v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. • (v. t.) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
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Scap'ple (skăp'p'l)
transitive verb [ Confer Old French
eskapeler ,
eschapler , to cut, hew, Late Latin
scapellare . Confer
Scabble .]
(a) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
(b) To dress in any way short of ...
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In masonry, to scapple a stone is to reduce it to a straight surface without working it smooth. This was usually done by chopping immediately it was dug in the quarry. The term is now used exclusively (or nearly so) in reference to stone, but was formerly applied to timber also, and must have signified the barking of a tree, or, more probably, squa...
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