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/skrˈæbəl/ Listen

noun

Scrabble n. The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

verb

Scrabble v. t. To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

Scrabble v. i. (past & past part. scrabbled; pres. part. scrabbling)

To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. "Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way."

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. "David... scrabbled on the doors of the gate."

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Etymology of 'Scrabble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scrabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... the world had all the time gone to, this evening? Just the very evening, of all others, when they wanted it to last three times longer than usual! It really was too bad; and was very unkind in the hands of the clock to scrabble over such delightful hours so fast. But there was no help for it now; and they put on their coats, cloaks, caps, and hats, and, after kissing Lillie and Miss Florence, who was going to live there, they ...

— The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens - Being the Fourth Book of the Series • Frances Elizabeth Barrow

... chief object. This fact must be kept in view always. Once lost sight of, and trade competition substituted for competition in serving the interests of the sick, medical and pharmacal practice will become an ignoble scrabble for wealth, in which the sick become victims of avarice and greed. Better set free a pack of ravening wolves in a community than to change the end of medical practice to a commercial one, for physicians and pharmacists would soon degenerate into quacks and ...

— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... said, "I've bought a season ticket. When the ticket-collector comes round I shan't fumble in all my pockets, or scrabble on the floor, or get red and nervous. I shall just sit tight without looking at him and whisper 'Season' from behind my penny Times. I've always wanted to be like that, and ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 • Various

... Although a graduate of West Point, with eleven years of military experience afterward, his career before 1861 had been hardly more than a failure. He had left the army in 1854 rather than stand trial on a charge of drunkenness; had grubbed a scanty living out of "Hard Scrabble," a farm in Missouri; had tried his hand at real estate, acted as clerk in a custom-house and worked in a leather store at $800 a year. Then came the war, and in less than three years Grant had received the title of Lieutenant-General, which only Washington had borne before ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... ye Scrabble-towners! ye Chatham wreckers! Git aout with your brick in your stockin'!" And the forces separated, but Chatham ...

— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

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