Read full poem →Its mouth is stopped with bramble, thorn, and briar;
And no one scrambles over the sliding chalk
By beech and yew and perishing juniper
Dictionary Entry
A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
In a Sentence
“a last-minute scramble to the finish line”
Origin
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Common Phrases
over scrambles. scramblesdown scramblesscrambles everyonescrambles word
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Poetry examples for “scrambles”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.