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To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.

Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. A man . . . grudgeth that shrews [i. e., bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for h…

Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [Obs.] There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford.

The harness of a drawloom.

A drawloom.

A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

To crawl like a snake.

tion of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon an…

Spawl; spittle. [Obs.] Bale.

y means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk. [Colloq.] A lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power, both of mind and body. Prof. Wilson.

A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.