Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrabbing
Literary usage of Scrabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"... of the hammering and scrabbing by horses' shoes is to loosen and remove most
where it is most easily moved. The hollows are thus rapidly made more ..."
2. My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life by Campbell Praed, Rosa Caroline Praed (1902)
"... buries itself in the earth again; and it's only a Chinaman or a nigger that'll
spend his time scrabbing after grubs; you can't get a white man to do it. ..."
3. The Garden Without Walls by Coningsby Dawson (1913)
"Here and there I came across places where she had been scrabbing, but I could
see her nowhere. At last I discovered her roosting on the branch of an ..."
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