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"etymology_text": "From Icelandic spraukla, \"to sprawl\".",
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"ref": "1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:",
"text": "We'll sprauchle yont life's roughsome way, / As canny as we dow; / An' souther oor affections aye, / In love's heart-warmin' lowe.",
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"ref": "1897, Robert McLean Calder, William Shillinglaw Crockett, A Berwickshire Bard: The Songs and Poems of Robert McLean Calder:",
"text": "We've routh o' disappointments as / We sprauchle up the brae, / We dinna get the things we want, / We lose the things we hae ;",
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"ref": "1931, Arthur Alexander Thomson, The Burns We Love, page 86:",
"text": "However far he might sprauchle up the brae, he never forgot — or patronised — an old friend.",
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"ref": "2001, Janet Paisley, Not for Glory, page 265:",
"text": "Sandra, her man, Raymond an his wife, sprauchle ower roots an bushes, hurryin through the trees.",
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"(Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty."
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"ref": "1830, Andrew Picken, The dominie's legacy, by the author of 'The sectarian'., page 137:",
"text": "Well, Sir, just when the gentlemen had got within three yards of her, Nelly geid a bit awckward sprauchle, an' shot out a leg, but whether Nelly had mistaken her distance, or whether the men were up to her fa'en system an' wadna bite, never clearly appeared; but they werna forward in time to catch the lassie in their arms as she expected, an' after a sprauchle an' a stumble, down she came in good earnest, an' broke her arm.",
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"ref": "1930, The Strand Magazine - Volume 80 -, page 535:",
"text": "But, with the planks bein' jammed as they were, he didn't sink as deep as his waist, an' after a sprauchle or two, that cost him his hat, he struggled out on the far side, an' moved on towards home, more muddled in his intellects than ever.",
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"ref": "1969, Mountain - Issues 6-19, page 114:",
"text": "... this didn't instil a sense of security so with an incredibly awkward manoeuvre the axe was driven into the floor and a cowardly sprauchle backwards performed to stand secured by slings above the void.",
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"text": "We've routh o' disappointments as / We sprauchle up the brae, / We dinna get the things we want, / We lose the things we hae ;",
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},
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"ref": "1931, Arthur Alexander Thomson, The Burns We Love, page 86:",
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},
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"text": "Sandra, her man, Raymond an his wife, sprauchle ower roots an bushes, hurryin through the trees.",
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"text": "Well, Sir, just when the gentlemen had got within three yards of her, Nelly geid a bit awckward sprauchle, an' shot out a leg, but whether Nelly had mistaken her distance, or whether the men were up to her fa'en system an' wadna bite, never clearly appeared; but they werna forward in time to catch the lassie in their arms as she expected, an' after a sprauchle an' a stumble, down she came in good earnest, an' broke her arm.",
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"ref": "1930, The Strand Magazine - Volume 80 -, page 535:",
"text": "But, with the planks bein' jammed as they were, he didn't sink as deep as his waist, an' after a sprauchle or two, that cost him his hat, he struggled out on the far side, an' moved on towards home, more muddled in his intellects than ever.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Mountain - Issues 6-19, page 114:",
"text": "... this didn't instil a sense of security so with an incredibly awkward manoeuvre the axe was driven into the floor and a cowardly sprauchle backwards performed to stand secured by slings above the void.",
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