Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which scratches.
  • noun An instrument for marking trees, usually a hook-like gouge fastened to a flat elliptical iron hoop with wooden handle-plates on the opposite side from the gouge. Also called bark-blazer, cruiser's bark-blazer, tree-scribe, and bark-gouge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zoöl.), any rasorial bird.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who scratches.
  • noun A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
  • noun lottery A scratch card.
  • noun zoology Any rasorial bird.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who scratches to relieve an itch
  • noun a device used for scratching
  • noun a workman who uses a tool for scratching

Etymologies

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scratch +‎ -er

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  • sCrATcher

    May 9, 2008