A brief workout for a racehorse.
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
A light, gentle wind.
Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
To blow gently.
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
To buzz.
A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
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.
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 disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
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.