shab

noun

1. (UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Scabies.
2. (UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A scab.

verb

1. (obsolete)To scratch; to rub.

   “I have shabbed him off purely”

2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off.

   “Certain Nipnets intended to have sheltred themselves under Vncas; but he perceiving it would be distastful to the English, soon shab'd them off.”

   “I have shabb'd him off purely.”

   “They shab'd […] Thomas aff to hell.”

   “[…] but when that [money] was gone, and he had not as much ground, that he could call his own, as would sod a lark, they soon shabbed him off.”

   “I hold the people in too much esteem, to shab them off with any thing of a secondary quality, whilst Providence has blessed me with the means of providing them the best.”

3. (UK, slang)To skulk or sneak away.

   “[…] and so the fat Parson shabb'd off,[…]”

   “We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.”