Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To scramble; struggle; hence, to wrangle or quarrel.
- To be busy or industrious.
- To shuffle; use evasion.
Wiktionary
- v. UK, dialect To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.
- v. UK, dialect To be industrious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.
Etymologies
- See scramble: compare OD. schraeffelen to scrape. (Wiktionary)
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hernesheir v.i.
To scrape by, struggle; scramble, wrangle; to be industrious.
Cf. references to this word in A Dictionary of North East Dialect Dec 30, 2008