Definition of "scrattle" in English

verb

1. To scratch.

   • But if I'm duly sensible of this, And if I really fear to do amiss, How, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then, Dares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen Presume thy neat performances to trace, And, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase

2. To make shift, to manage to get along.

3. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle.