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