To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.
The act of scrabbing; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
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