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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ]
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.