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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1569-1573, 1644-1690
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Scrape, n. Also: scrope. [Late ME and e.m.E. scrape (c1440); Scrape v.]
1. The result of an act of scraping. a. A scratch, a slight wound. b. A slight or hasty piece of writing; also a scrape of the pen. = Scraping vbl. n. 3.a. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 196.
Without bloud drawin vpoun himself, except a scrape vpoun the thombeb. 1644 Baillie II 158.
As yet I have not a scrape for any such end; and now if they wryte [etc.] 1690 John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort in Ellis Orig. Lett. 2 Ser. IV 198.
And in all this time we have not one scrape of a pen to free us from all these pains we suffer
2. Material resulting from the action of scraping. = Scraping vbl. n. 2. 1681 (1691) Consideration on the Scots Mint 22.
Under the pretence of silver called chizle, heads, sweeps and scrapes [1682 Edinburgh City Archives McLeod's Bundle No. 39 scropes]
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