scrault

An obsolete form of scrawll. scraunch (skränch), v. t. Same as scranch or scrunch. scraw (skra), n. [ sod. [Ireland and Scotland.] Neither should that odious custom be allowed of cutting scraws (as they call them), which is flaying off the green surface of the ground to cover their cabins or make up their ditches. Swift , Drapier's Letters, vii.