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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