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hardscrabble

 
(härd'skrăb'əl) pronunciation
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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