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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Scrib"bling\, n. [See 1st {Scribble}.]
    The act or process of carding coarsely.
    
    {Scribbling machine}, the machine used for the first carding
       of wool or other fiber; -- called also {scribbler}.
    
    
  2. \Scrib"bling\, a.
    Writing hastily or poorly.
    
          Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!
                                                   --Goldsmith.
    
    
  3. \Scrib"bling\, n.
    The act of writing hastily or idly.
    
    
 

 

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