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scrawn* n also scram, scran* [phonetics unavailable]. EDD scran 1 'food, provisions,' 2 (1 ) ~ bag.
   Comb scrawn-bag: canvas bag in which sealer or fisherman carries his day's food; NUNCH-BAG.
   T 141/68-652 Carry figs on ice in your scrawn bag. But all you get in your scrawn bag clear o' that, clear o' hard bread, would be rolled oats, see. T 181-65 We carry our own sugar, our own figs, and have a little bag onto us—scrawn bag what we have made 'fore we go away. P 207-67 He always took the scrawn bag out in boat with him.
   scrawn-box: lunch-box.
   1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 246 And there was a scram box or a grub box, as it was called. This was a box to carry food in. P 135-74 ~ A fisherman's lunch-box. M 79-504 When breakfast was finished, Dad would take the 'scram-box' (a small box of food to carry in the dory) and go down to the stage.

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