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hardscrabble
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Hardscrabble is a historic home located near Bahama , Durham County, North Carolina . It consists of two houses, one Georgian and one Federal , covered by a common cross-gable roof in the late-19th century. The Georgian was built about 1779 and the Federal ...
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a. Of or pertaining to land that takes a lot of work in order to farm and even then is not very productive.
WordNet
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adj. yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil" [syn: poor ] of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence" [syn: marginal ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, U.S. colloquial, the name of an imaginary barren place "where a livelihood may be obtained only under great hardship and difficulty;" from hard + scrabble . First recorded in journals of Lewis and Clark. Perhaps the original notion is "vigorous effort ...
Usage examples of hardscrabble.
There was something about the sound of a railroad whistle in the night to inspire young folk stuck with a heap of chores on a hardscrabble homestead to try their luck hopping freight trains to far places.
Gangly, gap-toothed, Inman seemed out of place in the hardscrabble town of 200, where his father operated the local Sinclair gasoline station.
He found gardening tools in the back seat, a level patch of hardscrabble off the access road to the Hollywood Sign and buried Mickey Cohen's would-be assassin in a plot about 4 by 4 by 4, working with an earth spade and grub hoe.