scart
verb (used with or without object)
to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.
scart
American
[skahrt]
/ skɑrt /
verb (used with or without object)
Scot.
scart
1
British
/ skært /
verb
noun
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a scratch or scrape
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a stroke of a pen
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a small amount; scraping
Scart
2
British
/ skɑːt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of scart
1325–75; Middle English (Scots), metathetic variant of scrat to scratch
Example Sentences
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The viewing gallery of the Point, a building seemingly designed to resemble an enormous scart lead port, was never anything other than heaving.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
The court heard how Ms McMillan, now of Dirkhill Road, Bradford, tried to move the television to plug in a scart lead so she could watch a DVD when it toppled off a cupboard.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2012
It’ll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the tombsteans all run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble-field.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
I'd heard shootin' there, but that's always goin' on about here, I didn't think nothin' of that, but I was scart by things I seen when I got to the Banks, an' I looked about.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
You never see such a dumbfounded, scart set of men in your life, an Seward looked as ef he would craul through an auger hole.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith
We'll go right over the downs, and back of Scart Hill, and so home.
From The Hoyden by Duchess
In Scotland a common name for it is Scart, applied also to the Great Cormorant.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
"Dasn't" try to learn to swim; Says a cow'll hook; if she Looks at him he'll climb a tree; "Scart" to death at bee or bat,— Fraidie-Cat!
From Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous
"Scart as he can be, Janice," he whispered.
From The Mission of Janice Day by Corinne Turner
Scart of a boat, scart of being seasick, scart of a gun, scart of everything!
From The Depot Master by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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