scraze, v. dial.
(skreɪz)
[App. a blending of scratch and graze vbs.]
trans. To scratch, graze (see E.D.D.). Hence scraze n., a scratch or graze.
| 1703 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 397 A defluxion which fell into one of my legs, caused by a slight scraze on my shin bone, falling on a stump as I was walking in Brompton Park. 1865 East Kent Gazette 7 Jan. 4/5, I found a small scraze of the right shin, which might have been caused by a fall. |