Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawm
Literary usage of Scrawm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"scrawm, v. to grope with the hands in making one's way in the dark. ...
That picture's nobbut a scrawm,' only ¡m outline ; without ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"scrawm, va and n. to sprawl; stretch ; straggle ; scramble; also, ... scrawm us
a few marls,' ,. e. marbles. sb. a scramble; fracas ; ' shindy. ..."
3. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"scrawm, va and n. to sprawl; stretch ; straggle; scramble; also, to throw to be
... scrawm us a few marls,' ie marbles. sb. a scramble; fracas; ' shindy. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"scrawm, v. (1) to crawl, to scramble. ' I could just scrawm aboot upo' two sticks.'
(2) To scratch. ..."
5. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"scrawm, ;;. a. and n. to sprawl ; stretch ; straggle ; scramble ; also, to throw
to be scrambled for. ..."
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