scranch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a crushing noise
    crunch; scraunch; crackle.
    • his shoes were crunching on the gravel

WordNet

Scranch transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. D. schransen to eat greedily, G. schranzen. Cf. Crunch, Scrunch.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Scranched ; present participle & verbal noun Scranching
Definitions
  1. To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.

Webster 1913