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Scabbling vs Cabbling - What's the difference?

scabbling | cabbling |

As nouns the difference between scabbling and cabbling

is that scabbling is pieces of stone remaining from the process of reducing a stone to a rough square by the axe or hammer while cabbling is the process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

As a verb scabbling

is .

scabbling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Pieces of stone remaining from the process of reducing a stone to a rough square by the axe or hammer.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • cabbling

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
  • * 1850 , John Weale, Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture, etc. (page 71)
    • The pieces of iron obtained by cabbling are then heated in another furnace almost to fusion, hammered down into shape, and ultimately drawn out into bar-iron.
    (Webster 1913)