screeve (skrev)

[Prob. screever (skrē'ver), n. [Prob. I then took to screeving (writing on the stones). I got my head shaved, and a cloth tied round my jaws, and wrote on the flags "Illne and Want," though I was never better in my life, and always had a good belly full before I started of a morning. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 461.