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Scratcher   Listen
noun
Scratcher  n.  One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zool.), any rasorial bird.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scratcher" Quotes from Famous Books



... fall to the branches of the parent tree, and to those of its lowly neighbours. Certainly some proportion of the seeds which reach the ground must be borne hither and thither by the agency of that eternal scratcher, the scrub fowl. But even a bird of such immensely proportionate strength may be seriously troubled by them. A case in point may be cited. A dog retrieving a scrub fowl, which had fallen in the vicinity of an "Ahm-moo" tree, emerged with it entirely enveloped with the seeds and ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield



Words linked to "Scratcher" :   workingman, device, someone, person, mortal, soul, workman, working person, somebody, scratch, backscratcher



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