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scrabbled

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scrab·bled  (skrbld)
adj.
Covered with sparse vegetation; scrubby: "We can stand . . . and look out toward the scrabbled, snow-covered mountains in the west" (Russell Banks).


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We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water.
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When they were stopped by the wall, he placed her atop of it, scrabbled over, and made her jump into his arms.
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Whereupon Bert and Edna also scrabbled in the road-grit.
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