"scrattle" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrattles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scrattle (third-person singular simple present scrattles, present participle scrattling, simple past and past participle scrattled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1738, The London Magazine, rev. Mr. Darwall, to Mr. George Bickham, \"On the First Volume of his Musical Entertainer\"; page 303",
          "text": "But if I'm duly sensible of this,\nAnd if I really fear to do amiss,\nHow, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then,\nDares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen\nPresume thy neat performances to trace,\nAnd, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scratch."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrattle-en-verb-ELMmLkb2",
      "links": [
        [
          "scratch",
          "scratch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson, Nella Last in the 1950s: Further diaries of Housewife, 49:",
          "text": "My husband says “What's the good of scrattling and saving, Edna, when in two–three years we might all be blown up by an atom bomb?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make shift, to manage to get along."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrattle-en-verb-BK835udo",
      "links": [
        [
          "make shift",
          "make shift"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 28 65",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 33 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 24 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scuttle."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrattle-en-verb-HRRrRXSK",
      "links": [
        [
          "scuttle",
          "scuttle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrattle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrattles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scrattle (third-person singular simple present scrattles, present participle scrattling, simple past and past participle scrattled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1738, The London Magazine, rev. Mr. Darwall, to Mr. George Bickham, \"On the First Volume of his Musical Entertainer\"; page 303",
          "text": "But if I'm duly sensible of this,\nAnd if I really fear to do amiss,\nHow, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then,\nDares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen\nPresume thy neat performances to trace,\nAnd, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scratch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scratch",
          "scratch"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson, Nella Last in the 1950s: Further diaries of Housewife, 49:",
          "text": "My husband says “What's the good of scrattling and saving, Edna, when in two–three years we might all be blown up by an atom bomb?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make shift, to manage to get along."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make shift",
          "make shift"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scuttle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scuttle",
          "scuttle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrattle"
}