scrabble

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  1. intransitive verb To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands.
  2. intransitive verb To struggle by or as if by scraping or groping.
  3. intransitive verb To climb with scrambling, disorderly haste; clamber.
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  • He somehow had to escape that hard-scrabble farm from which he was born. —  Doris Kearns Goodwin on learning from past presidents
  • After four years as a congressman, enjoying the bustle and excitement of the cities, he simply could not sit and stagnate on a hard-scrabble patch on the Obion. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Josh hastily switched on his helmet lamp and aimed its failing beam at the cave's entrance; then both men waited, listening intently for the scrabble of loose stone that must accompany their rescuer's arrival. —  EQMM,March-April2008
  • It's an emotional time and it will be for Frazier, who fought his way out of the hard-scrabble Hollander Ridge housing projects in Baltimore, where his family of eight crammed into a small, three-bedroom house.
  • And Rafael Benítez scores more than Ricky Sbragia in scrabble - Thats a fact
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  1. Dutch schrabbelen, from Middle Dutch, frequentative of schrabben, to scrape; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also scrable; variant of scrupple, freq. of scrape: see scrape, scrab, and cf. scraffle, scrapple, scramble. The word in def. 3 has come to be associated with scribble (cf. scrawl), but there is no orig. connection with scribble or its source, Latin scribere.
  2. from scrabble, v. Cf. scramble, n.
 

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