Scapple

Quick meaning: Scapple is a verb meaning (transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.

Meaning

(transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To dress (e.g. stone) in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing.

Example Sentences

Paving is to be properly scappled, squared, and jointed, and bedded in mortar upon hard and dry rubble which has been well rammed.

A large quantity of stone was quarried, and scappled into blocks, for H.M. Dockyard at Portsmouth, and for other purposes, on the spot.

Bluestone ashlar work, with rustic chamfered joints, the faces of the stones being left rough, as scappled from the quarry, at per cubic foot.

And if the Stone be scappled to a mould for Cornices, Columns, Capitalls or the like, and not square Block (and to be readyly provided) then a farther allowance is to be made not exceeding per Tunn - Twelve pence

Word Forms

• scapples
• scappling
• scappled
• scabble

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scantle, scab, skimp, slash, abrade, scarify.

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