scringe
/skɹɪnd͡ʒ/
scringe noun: the act or sound of scratching or scraping.
Noun
scringe (plural scringes)
- 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 .1990, Field - Issues 42-45, page 7
- […] to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,1994, Briege Duffaud, Nothing Like Beirut, page 41
- A cringe.
- Well, on that June day I embraced her with a slight scringe, and, seating her in my armchair, threw myself down upon the floor, out of reach of her arms, with my hands clasped around my knees.1859 March, “My "Intimate Enemy"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 18, number 106, page 511
- Take courage, brother: you are making better progress than we are, for I cannot even get a scringe.1882, Richard Brodhead Westbrook, The Bible, Whence and what?, page 228
- A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.
- Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty...1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258
- The scringe decidedly takes the precedence of the splash, provided sufficient strength as well as skill be employed for its effective management — because, if the net is not drawn equally and continuously towards the shore, many fish will escape.1867, Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting, page 24
Verb
scringe (third-person singular simple present scringes, present participle scringing, simple past and past participle scringed)
- To cringe or shrink.
- It made me scringe to hear her, Sir, " said she, adding, with a change of tone, " but I must scringe for myself yet; for , oh dear! how can I talk about other people's sins, and I such a sinner!1854 December, “Real Scenes of Gipsy Life”, in The Two-penny post
- Yes, if you put your hand on him he might scringe around a little .1907, Supreme Court Appellate Division, page 94
- To scrape.
- When a boy sharpens his slate-pencil with a knife, he says it makes his teeth 'scringe'.1893, English Dialect Society, Publications - Volume 36, page 40
- Knee joints were beginning to scringe.2010, Bernard MacLaverty, Matters of Life & Death, page 56
- To fish using a scringe.
- Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty...1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258
- The evil complained of, so far from having decreased, has been greater than before, as the men engaged in this lawless pursuit, finding that they scringe with impunity, have become emboldened, and are more industrious than ever.1874, Archibald Young, Notes on the Scotch Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868, page 30
Examples of scringe in a sentence
- A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present .1918, Heave Together:
- Of course, with surface-swimming fish the scringe or ground seine need not touch the bottom.1895, John Bickerdyke, Sea Fishing, page 282:
- It allus made him scringe to have me speak of the Banty woman in the tone I used when I wanted to make him scringe, and I had a notion that flauntin ' his full name wouldn't soothe him much;1914, Robert Alexander Wason, Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle, page 369:
- But scringe from him, an' as Shakespeare says, clad in a little brief authority, that houn' dawg'll bite you when you ain't a-watchin' out.1926, Rose Wilder Lane, Hill-Billy, page 15:
Forms of scringe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scringes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scringes |
| present participle | scringing |
| past participle | scringed |
| past | scringed |
Origin of scringe
Compare cringe and shrink.
Words that rhyme with scringe
Questions about scringe
- What does scringe mean?
- Scringe means the act or sound of scratching or scraping.
- How do you use scringe in a sentence?
- A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present .
- What part of speech is scringe?
- Scringe can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scringe?
- Scringe is pronounced /skɹɪnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of scringe?
- The plural of scringe is scringes.
Words near scringe in the dictionary
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