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scrabble noun1. L18.
[from SCRABBLE verb.]
A scramble; a confused struggle, a free-for-all. N. Amer. L18.
R. D. Saunders The toughest scrabble you..ever saw in Missouri politics.
A scrawled written character; a piece of scrawled writing; a scrawl, a scribble. M19.
P. F. Tytler Peregrine's letters they could read, but the Duchess..defied them..with her fearful scrabbles. Athenaeum A composition..executed in a scrabble of lines which wants repose.
The action or an act of scrabbling. L19.
T. B. Aldrich The scrabble of the animal's four paws..on the gravelled pathway.