A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.
One in a series of clues leading to a person or place.
To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface).
To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction.
To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking.
A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
Money.
A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
A scratch wig.
A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
An injury.
Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
(of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
to get such scratches
To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
To dig or excavate with the claws.
To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.