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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
scratch .
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Examples
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In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with biting and with claws.
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In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with biting and with claws.
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‘Naught scratcheth my skin but my own nail and naught like my own feet for mine errand may avail.’
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A girdle of spines is their praise unto me: it scratcheth me even when I take it off.
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If any in the interim chance to come within her reach, twenty to one she scratcheth him by the face; or doe but offer to hold her hands, sheel presently begin to cry out murder.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with biting and with claws.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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"Hevin 'done this, you wot, this little pin-like pricketh or scratcheth the wax, an' the next time you go over the thing, there you are!"
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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A girdle of spines is their praise unto me: it scratcheth me even when I take it off.
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A girdle of spines is their praise unto me: it scratcheth me even when I take it off.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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The catte is a beste {tha} t seeth sharpe, and she byteth sore/and scratcheth right perylously/& is principall ennemye to rattis & myce/
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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