(dialect, UK, and, US) The act or sound of scratching or scraping.
Any teenager who, like myself, has ever got the gooseflesh at the flush and scringe of Hopkins's assonances and alliterations proves this upon his or her pulses .
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(dialect, UK, and, US) A cringe.
to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,
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(fishing) A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.
But Bill would have none of this: it grated upon his sensibility, like the scringe of chalk upon a slate in the schoolroom, or like our collie dog at home in Garvaghey, who, when Aunt Freda played the piano, would raise his noble nose an…
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