scratch
/skɹæt͡ʃ/ sustantivo B1En español: arañazo, rayadura
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching. · Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation. · The dog sat up and had a good scratch.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start. · There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from nine horses to seven.
- A minor injury. · It's just a scratch!
Plural scratches
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The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and wound many coils about his body and head and legs, until he was unable to bite or scratch or struggle in any way.
Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this advertisement had upon your fortunes.
And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat’s claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
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