Definitions | hardscrabble |
| adjective hard-scrabble
- said of land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive
- 1922: Rex Ellingwood Beach, Flowing Gold
- :In the case of Allegheny Briskow, poverty, the drought, the grinding hardships of these hard-scrabble Texas counties, had dwarfed the intellect, the very soul of a splendid young animal.
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