a scratch or scrape
a stroke of a pen
a small amount; scraping
1325–75; Middle English (Scots), metathetic variant of scrat to scratch
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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
"Sure I want him, but he won't come; he's scart of the cars."
From Jimmie Moore of Bucktown by Trotter, Melvin Earnest
I was scart, too, most o’ the time, ’n’ kept feelin’ suthin awful was goin’ to happen to me.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
"Scart as he can be, Janice," he whispered.
From The Mission of Janice Day by Turner, Corinne
In Scotland a common name for it is Scart, applied also to the Great Cormorant.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
We'll go right over the downs, and back of Scart Hill, and so home.
From The Hoyden by Duchess
Scart of a boat, scart of being seasick, scart of a gun, scart of everything!
From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
"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
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