(North America, of land) Requiring much work to farm, and ultimately not very productive.
his hardscrabble peanut farm
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(North America, by extension) Involving hard work and struggle.
In the case of Allegheny Briskow, poverty, the drought, the grinding hardships of these hard-scrabble Texas counties, had dwarfed the intellect, the very soul of a splendid young animal.
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