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Scraw

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.

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scraw

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.