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SCOOR.—(Rhyming with "moor.")

To cut lightly across as with the skin of pork for roasting. Vide Scotch.

Twenty pounds weight.

SCOTCH.—To score. Vide Scoor.

SCOUR.—To purge.

Diarrhœa in cattle and sheep.

SCRAAYPE.—An arrangement for the destruction of birds in severe weather. Scraaypes are of two kinds, the first is an old door supported by a stick under which corn is placed and the stick being pulled by a long string the door falls on the birds. The second is made by placing corn where snow has been swept away, and the birds, when congregated, are shot in numbers, being enfiladed along the scraaype.

SCRABBLE.—To move out the hands as if to reach something.

To make clutchings with the hands.

The expression "Us hopes to scrabble along somehow," is often used in hard times, and means "We hope to make shift till better times come."

SCRAG.—A piece of tough and shrivelled meat.

SCRIMMAGE.—A harmless fight, arising hastily, conducted confusedly, and soon at an end.

SCROOP—To make a noise, as with a gate turning on rusty hinges.

Scroopettin' is the noise made when anything scroops.

SCROW.—Angry looking; perhaps related to "scrowl."

"A looked maain scrow when I tawld 'un what I'd a-done."

SCROWGE.—To squeeze; to huddle together.

A village school mistress of by-gone days would say, "What be all you childern a scrowgin' on that ther vorm vor, when ther be another 'un handy vor zome on 'e?"

SCRUFF.—The hair on the back of the neck.

"If e' hawlds a rat by the scruff a can't never bite 'e."

SCRUMP.—To bite with a noise.

"That ther yent the waay to yet lollipops, e' should zuck 'um an' not scrump 'um."

The crackling of pork.

SCRUNCH.—To crush between the teeth.