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Scrat

Scrat \Scrat\, v. t. [OE. scratten. Cf. Scratch.] To scratch. [Obs.]
--Burton.

Scrat

Scrat \Scrat\, n. [Cf. AS. scritta an hermaphrodite, Ir. scrut a scrub, a low, mean person, Gael. sgrut, sgruit, an old, shriveled person.] An hermaphrodite. [Obs.]
--Skinner.

Scrat

Scrat \Scrat\, v. i. To rake; to search. [Obs.]
--Mir. for Mag.

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scrat

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws. 2 (context obsolete UK English) To rake; to search. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) A hermaphrodite.

Usage examples of "scrat".

There might have been space for a scrat to wiggle through, but certainly not for a man.

A flicker of reddish brown at the base of one of the nearer quarasote plants told him that a scrat had made a nest there.

Even as he questioned, Alucius tried to find the nodes in the threads of the scrat, which remained calmly observing him.

In the end, Alucius finally grasped the techniques and actually managed to unlock the thread nodes and revive the sandsnake and the last scrat on his own.

Kleg sat perched uncomfortably upon the back of the scrat, a stupid, mean-spirited beast with four thick stumpy legs, a hide like moss-covered rock, and a tendency to bite anything it could reach.

New senses told him that the thrashing scrat lay just ahead, waiting for its destiny.

In a matter of moments, the clear blue water had turned a cloudy crimson, and the struggling scrat was no more.

And he live all alone, with one big black cat what were fierce enough to scrat your eyes out.

All they had seen or sensed were grayjays, scrats, and one or two sandsnakes.

It displayed the same location, save that there were patches of grass, a few bushes, and other scattered vegetation across the hillside, as well as a pair of what looked like scrats at the edge of a gray-water lake.

Most of the seeds ended up as food for the ratlike scrats or for the grayjays, but enough survived to ensure new quarasote every year.

Scrats and grayjays were just thin flashes, brown for the Scrats and bluish gray for the grayjays.

The new quarasote shoots were few and short, and the ground so dry that both scrats and grayjays were scarce.

There were the scrats that burrowed around the quarasote bushes, and the grayjays that scavenged almost anything, but nothing to command his attention.

During that time, in his efforts to learn to handle threads, Alucius managed to kill several scrats, a grayjay, and a sandsnake.