scrawl

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCRAWL, verb transitive 1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly. 2. To write awkwardly. SCRAWL, verb intransitive 1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl 2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use.] SCRAWL, noun 1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing. 2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush wood.
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