The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scraw \Scraw\ (skr[add]), n. [Ir. scrath a turf, sgraith a turf,
green sod; akin to Gael. sgrath, sgroth, the outer skin of
anything, a turf, a green sod.]
A turf. [Obs.]
--Swift.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field. 2 A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
Usage examples of "scraw".
In spite of their placid, dazed, beatific smiles and grimaces, they were a kind of curious sadness, in their weird, bright patterns of love-paint on the scrawn of flesh, in their protest bangles and their disaffiliated bells, crushing the flower blossoms in a dreamy imitation of adult acts that for them had all been bleached of any significance or purpose.
He was a New England Heathcliff, only wasted away to a bare scrawn from the hips down.