adj.
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.
Barren or marginal farmland.
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hardscrabble
American Heritage Dictionary:
hard·scrab·ble |
adj.
Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.
Barren or marginal farmland.
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1) being or relating to a piece of barren or barely arable soil
2) marked by poverty
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