scrattle

Verb

 * 1) To scratch.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) To make shift, to manage to get along.
 * 2)  To scuttle.
 * 1)  To scuttle.