scale off

English

Verb

scale off (third-person singular simple present scales off, present participle scaling off, simple past and past participle scaled off)

To peel off
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
  Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.

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