scale off

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You can also gently scrape the scale off branches and stems with a plastic dish scrubber.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Geological Survey data, there were 397 tremors of 5.0 or higher on the Richter scale off or near the east coast of Japan's main island from Mar. 11 through Mar. 23.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 31, 2011

After a few more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high Detecto scale off to the side of the ring, the M.C. and three judges take their seats at a long table on the bandstand.

From Time Magazine Archive

This slide seemed to have been occasioned by a softness of the rock in that part, causing it to scale off in thin pieces, which the slightest disturbance would send rattling down the mountain.

From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

Scouter, skowt′ėr, n. a workman who uses jump-drills, wedges, &c. to scale off large flakes of stone.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various