[skraw-ler] 
| 1. | a person who scrawls. |
| 2. | an agricultural machine for laying out fields in which plants are to be placed in ridged rows. |
| scrawl (skrôl) v. scrawled, scrawl·ing, scrawls v. tr. To write hastily or illegibly. v. intr. To write in a sprawling, irregular manner. n.
[Perhaps from obsolete scrawl, to gesticulate, sprawl, from Middle English scrawlen, probably blend of sprawlen, to sprawl; see sprawl and craulen, to crawl; see crawl1.] scrawl'er n., scrawl'y adj. |
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