scrawm v EDD ~ v 3 'to gather'; DINNEEN scramaim 'I snatch, snap, grab.' To reach (for something); to grope.
[1897] [1960] BURKE [ed White] 32 "The Landfall of Cabot": Then up spoke old Bill Furlong, / Saying this thing it is a joke / While a scramin of his pocket, / For to try and get a smoke.
