English
scapple
Scapple comes from Late Latin scapello.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEscapello
- Englishearliest quotation 1835scapple
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEscapello
- Englishearliest quotation 1835scapple
Earliest quotation: 1835, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopædia of Cottage: “The door scuncheons and lintels of the cart-house and…”
Every English word from Late Latin scapello
Today it means
verb To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin scapello / scapple