scobs means raspings of wood, ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
scobs is pronounced /skɒbz/.
Etymology
From Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere (“to scrape”).
noun
- Raspings of wood, ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.“This was so much the case in antient times that the floor of the dining room was generally covered with scobs or sawdust to absorb what Seneca calls the purgamenta et jactus cænantium, the “excretions and discharges of the guests." The scobs became at length a point of luxury. Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not ”
- The dross of metals.“The scobs thereof Diose, helps those that are hurt by quicksilver, taken inwardly, or used outwardly, it attracting to it selfe”