scart

American  

[skahrt] / skɑrt /

verb (used with or without object)

Scot.

1. to scratch, scrape, mark, or scar.

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scart ¹ British  

/ skært /

verb

1. to scratch or scrape

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noun

1. a scratch or scrape

2. a stroke of a pen

3. a small amount; scraping

Scart ² British  

/ skɑːt /

noun

1. electronics

   1. a 21-pin plug-and-socket system which carries picture, sound, and other signals, used especially in home entertainment systems

   2. ( as modifier )

      a Scart cable

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Etymology

Origin of scart

1325–75; Middle English (Scots), metathetic variant of scrat to scratch

Example Sentences

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 Dejeans, Elizabeth

When they asked the old man about it afterward he said he acted that way because he was too darned scart to run.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace