"scrattle" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "scrattles",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "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"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To scratch."
      ],
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      "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?",
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        }
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        "To make shift, to manage to get along."
      ],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scuttle."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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  "word": "scrattle"
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      "form": "scrattles",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "scrattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "scrattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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          "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"
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        "To scratch."
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        "To make shift, to manage to get along."
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    },
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        "To scuttle."
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        "(intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle."
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