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Found 2 hits - Term: scrambling, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scramble \scram"ble\, v. i. imp.  p. p. scrambled; p. pr. 
   vb. n. scrambling. freq. of prov. e. scramb to rake
   together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf.
   scrabble.
   1. to clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to
      scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
      1913 webster

   2. to struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon
      the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something;
      to catch rudely at what is desired.
      1913 webster

            of other care they little reckoning make,
            than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
scrambled scrambling scrabble 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scrambling \scram"bling\, a.
   confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. --
   scram"blingly, adv.
   1913 webster

         a huge old scrambling bedroom.           --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster
see also:
scram"blingly 

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