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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
What does "schabspur" mean?
Andy Lustig

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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    scrape? -Preussen
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think schabspurs are those painful little spiny things that grow in the dunes near the beach.

    No, wait- those are sandspurs. Sorry. image

    (That lame joke probably went right over the head of the folks who aren't from Georgia, Florida, or the Gulf states.)

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Time for some sleep Rob?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Alas, no. Time to get ready for another graveyard shift. You think I'm loopy now, just wait until my early morning posts.

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  • << <i>I think schabspurs are those painful little spiny things that grow in the dunes near the beach.

    No, wait- those are sandspurs. Sorry. image

    (That lame joke probably went right over the head of the folks who aren't from Georgia, Florida, or the Gulf states.) >>





    Ahh, the nemesis of every barefoot kid when I was growing up!
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,051 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>I think schabspurs are those painful little spiny things that grow in the dunes near the beach.

    No, wait- those are sandspurs. Sorry. image

    (That lame joke probably went right over the head of the folks who aren't from Georgia, Florida, or the Gulf states.) >>





    Ahh, the nemesis of every barefoot kid when I was growing up! >>



    In Texas, we called them Goat Heads...........the older, big ones turn purple, and are about 3-4x this one below.



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    Whilst playing football, the coaches reserved a huge patch of the practice field which was covered in goat heads for either the entire team if we lost, or teammates who played poorly........missed tackles were a big, NO,NO!!!!!!!


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    << <i>

    << <i>I think schabspurs are those painful little spiny things that grow in the dunes near the beach.

    No, wait- those are sandspurs. Sorry. image

    (That lame joke probably went right over the head of the folks who aren't from Georgia, Florida, or the Gulf states.) >>





    Ahh, the nemesis of every barefoot kid when I was growing up! >>



    In Texas, we called them Goat Heads...........the older, big ones turn purple, and are about 3-4x this one below.



    image



    Whilst playing football, the coaches reserved a huge patch of the practice field which was covered in goat heads for either the entire team if we lost, or teammates who played poorly........missed tackles were a big, NO,NO!!!!!!! >>



    Here in Oregon we call them Tac-Weeds
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for all the help!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 2,999 ✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't 'schab' literally mean push? I suspect that it is refers to a pronounced contact hit or bump in the field of the coin. See the following auction on MA-Shops for a clue.

    link to MA-Shops auction

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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    Schab = scrape. -Preussen

    "Illegitimis non carborundum" -General Joseph Stilwell. See my auctions


  • << <i>Doesn't 'schab' literally mean push? I suspect that it is refers to a pronounced contact hit or bump in the field of the coin. See the following auction on MA-Shops for a clue. >>




    Schieben is to push.

    Schabe is scrape or a type of bug (Kuechenschabe is a c@ck roach).

    A severe scrape is a Schramme. Kratzer is a scratch.

    Spur is track, lane or trace.

    Yup, it refers to the scrape in front of her chin.
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    From my German Opa ......

    Schaben is a verb and means to scrape.

    Spur is a noun and means a track.

    Thus a Schabspur could be a track left behind after someone has scraped something, say the track of a knife on a table or on a window pane etc.


  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perfect. Thanks!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Thus a Schabspur could be a track left behind after someone has scraped something, say the track of a knife on a table or on a window pane etc. >>

    Je$us Chri$t on a popsicle stick; isn't the "track left behind after someone has scraped something" called a SCRAPE? -Preussen
    "Illegitimis non carborundum" -General Joseph Stilwell. See my auctions
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