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NOUNS 5. anything stunted, gnarled or shrivelled (Scottish) 6. the crab-apple, Pyrus malus (Scottish and dialect) 7. a scratch (dialect) VERBS 1. to scratch, scrape, claw (obsolete except dialect) 2. to erase (dialect) 3. to grab, snatch; to steal (obsolete except dialect) also SKRAB CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY for crab-apple: probably of Scandinavian origin: cf. Swedish dialect skrabba of the same meaning, Sweddish scrabba sea-scorpion for verb: from Dutch schrabben: allied to scrape (vb.) EXAMPLE (for verb 1) From: The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Vol. XXVI, Part II for 1808. Sept. 1, 1808. Reflections occasioned from the perusal of Mr. Colquhoun's Treatise on Indigence.
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