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ˈscrattle, v. dial.
[Frequent. f. scrat v.]
1. intr. To keep on scratching; trans. to scrape away by quickly repeated movements.
1739Shenstone Let. Wks. 1777 III. 5, I sat down, and wrote thus far: scrattle, scrattle, goes the pen. 1817Wilbraham Chesh. Gloss., Scrattle, to scratch, as fowls do. 1870Daily News 16 Apr., The authoress..can toil through a long day ‘scrattling’ the snow away from frozen sheep.
2. (See quot. 1864.)
1817H. L. Piozzi Let. 4 Jan. in Autobiogr. Mrs. Piozzi (1861) II. 187 Coal carts scrattling up the hill often used to make me think—‘Hinc ex audiri gemitus, et sæva sonare Verbera; tum stridor ferri, tractæque catenæ.’ 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxx, Nobody..cared for nothing but scrattling up and down alongshore like to prawns in a pule. 1864― Roman & Teuton 175 With west-country⁓men, to scrattle still means to scramble or shuffle about.
Hence ˈscrattling vbl. n. and ppl. a., scraping, scratching.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iii, A bouncing and scrattling was heard on the stairs, and a white bull-dog rushed in. 1913D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers iv. 75 In this flamin', scrattlin' place. |