scrattle

== English == === Verb === scrattle (third-person singular simple present scrattles, present participle scrattling, simple past and past participle scrattled) To scratch. 1738, The London Magazine, rev. Mr. Darwall, to Mr. George Bickham, "On the First Volume of his Musical Entertainer"; page 303 But if I'm duly sensible of this, And if I really fear to do amiss, How, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then, Dares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen Presume thy neat performances to trace, And, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase To make shift, to manage to get along. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle. === Anagrams === Scarlett, clatters