[ˈskrabl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something
(e.g: she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. The noun sense ‘struggle to achieve something’ is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th century

[ˈskrabl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of scratching or scrambling for something
(e.g: he heard the scrabble of claws behind him)

- a game in which players build up words on a board from small lettered squares or tiles


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. The noun sense ‘struggle to achieve something’ is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th century