SCRABBLE
Scrab"ble, n.
Defn: The act of scrabbing; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
SCRABER Scra"ber, n. Etym: [Cf. Scrabble.] (Zoöl.) (a) The Manx shearwater. (b) The black guillemot.
SCRAFFLE Scraf"fle, v. i. Etym: [See Scramble: cf. OD. schraeffelen to scrape.]
Defn: To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.
[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
SCRAG
Scrag, n. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean
man, Gael. sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf.
Scrog, Shrag, n.]
1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray.
2. A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell.
3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.
SCRAGGED
Scrag"ged, a.