Scrabble

scrabble
    n 1: an aimless drawing [syn: {scribble}, {scrabble}, {doodle}]
    2: a board game in which words are formed from letters in
       patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a
       value and those values are used to score the game
    v 1: feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark"
         [syn: {grope for}, {scrabble}]
    2: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn:
       {scribble}, {scrabble}]
    

Scrabble \Scrab"ble\ (skr[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Scrabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrabbling}.] [Freq. of scrape.
   Cf. {Scramble}, {Scrawl}, v. t.]
   1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by
      clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to
      scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
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            Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and
            getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
                                                  --Bunyan.
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   2. To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to
      scribble; to scrawl.
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            David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. --1.
                                                  Sam. xxi. 13.
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Scrabble \Scrab"ble\, v. t.
   To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to
   scrabble paper.
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Scrabble \Scrab"ble\, n.
   The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a
   scramble; also, a scribble.
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88 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrabble":
      all fours, barbouillage, beat about, bore, burrow, clamber, crawl,
      crawling, creep, creeping, delve, dig, dig out, dike, doodle,
      dredge, drill, drive, excavate, feel around, feel for, fumble,
      furrow, go on tiptoe, gouge, gouge out, grabble, groove, grope,
      grope for, grovel, grub, gumshoe, gumshoeing, hen scratches,
      hen tracks, inch, inch along, lower, mine, nightwalk, nightwalking,
      pad, padding, pattes de mouche, poke around, pothookery, pothooks,
      pothooks and hangers, prowl, prowling, pry around, pussyfoot,
      pussyfooting, quarry, sap, scoop, scoop out, scramble, scrape,
      scratch, scrawl, scribble, scribbling, shovel, sidle, sidling,
      sink, slink, slinking, snake, snaking, sneak, sneaking, spade,
      squiggle, steal, steal along, stealing, tippytoe, tiptoe,
      tiptoeing, trench, trough, tunnel, worm, worm along, worming