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scrattling
Scanty, beggarly. v
(present participle of scrattle English)
Usage examples of "scrattling".
And she lay, with her eyes just moving, following in her mind that little scrattling sound, and waiting for sleep to release her from it.
Lavender paused for breath, and in the darkness a faint noise, as of a mouse scrattling at a wainscot, attracted his attention.