Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrats
Literary usage of Scrats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Paper War Carried on at the Nottingham Election, 1803: Containing the by Daniel Parker Coke, Joseph Birch (1803)
"The scrats to defeat and the Booth to invade ; He planted his men at eleven at
night, They then were ready by neit morning light. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"Г swear to him," the big Dutchman roared, " by his broke brads un' scrats." "
How dare you ask me for an explanation of this cock-and-bull story, ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"Hen-scrats" and •• mares'-tails" are names given to the light, fleecy, and long
vapoury clouds which science calls Cirrho-strati дп<1 ¡traf. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"Small dappled clouds, or light thin clouds like torn locks of wool. " flen-scrats
and ... The first line sometimes runs— " Hen-scrats and ..."
5. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... builds a oven for's wife to save her from going to the bakehouse, or scrats
at his bit o' garden and makes two potatoes grow istead o' one, ..."
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