Skiffling

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005320",
  "term": "Skiffling",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A rough dressing of quarried stone in which knobs and projections are knocked off the surface of a block to bring it roughly to shape. The result is a coarse face rather than a smooth one, which a mason would finish with finer tools if a smoother surface were wanted, and the operation is also called knobbing.",
  "subject": "Mining and extraction",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Knabbelung",
    "es": "desbaste",
    "fr": "skiffling"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/skiffling/"
}