Citations:rauk

to scratch with anything pointed; to mark by scratching

 * 1834, Mactaggart Encycl.:
 * A cat raucking on a bedden.
 * 1866, Gilpin, Songs, page 532:
 * His back roak't wi' spikes / Sticking out o' t'trap-dooar.

to stir; to rake; to poke or scrape at

 * 1854, Kelly, Teetotalers, page 19:
 * Roqueing at a mine.
 * 1857, Scholes, Tim Gamwattle, page 53:
 * Iv awd Roddle wur leyd e that greawnd id bi reawkin eawt oth mood loik e wurm e o sheawr.
 * 1880, Notes & Queries, 6th S., i. 505:
 * Cruel cold work vor thickey gentleman, a roking about in the muck.

a mark, a scratch; a thin mark, a dirty mark

 * 1865, Banks, Wkfld. Wds.:
 * Rawks o' muck dahn't side on his faace.
 * 1881, Sargisson, Joe Scoap, page 57:
 * Thuh'll just tak an rub oa them ugly rokes off my kist lid.
 * 1896 June 27, Yorkshire Weekly Post:
 * 'At drew all them rawks.