scringe

noun

1. (UK, US, dialectal)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 .”

   “[…] to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,”

   “But Bill would have none of this: it grated upon his sensibility, like the scringe of chalk upon a slate in the schoolroom, or like our collie dog at home in Garvaghey, who, when Aunt Freda played the piano, would raise his noble nose and howl derisively.”

2. (UK, US, dialectal)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.”

   “Take courage, brother: you are making better progress than we are, for I cannot even get a scringe.”

   “A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present .”

3. A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.

   “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.”

   “Of course, with surface-swimming fish the scringe or ground seine need not touch the bottom.”

verb

1. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)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!”

   “Yes, if you put your hand on him he might scringe around a little .”

   “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;”

   “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.”

2. (UK, US, dialectal, intransitive)To scrape.

   “When a boy sharpens his slate-pencil with a knife, he says it makes his teeth 'scringe'.”

   “Knee joints were beginning to scringe.”

   “All her life Gert Kavanaugh had had to scringe and scrape to make ends meet while Marta May — a spoiled brat if Gert had ever seen one — had been the darling of the countryside.”

3. To fish using a scringe.

   “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.”

   “But in spite of their watchfulness, sometimes a black-looking boat slips over in the dead of night from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Oban, catches the keepers napping, and 'scringes' the mouth of a river, clearing off every salmon and sea-trout in the bay.”