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present participle and gerund of scratch examples
countable and uncountable, plural scratchings
The act or sound of something being scratched. quotations examples
It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 236
A pork scratching. quotations examples
'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
2010, Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop. examples