What is "scratchings"

Usage examples of "scratchings".

Each of the little rainbows showed only a fragment of a picture, and each picture in turn was only part of Isaac’s tapestry of sketchings and scratchings, but Daniel supposed that if he stood there through a sufficient number of long cold nights and concentrated very hard, he might be able to assemble, in his mind, a rough conception of the entire thing.

You sit there scratching away and you compose your scratchings to make a pleasant whole and you think of the golden mean and all those rules of proportion that dog us all and at the end of a day's scratchings you have your picture.

She leaned harder on the haft and dug her scratchings as deeply as possible.

Fire shot along the scratchings, but they did not stop when the device was fully aflame.

His slate pencil made scratchings unpleasant to the ear, as they vibrated through the water.