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Definition of "scrannel" []

  • Slight; thin; lean; poor (adjective)

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Use "scrannel" in a sentence
  • "'The hungry sheep,' as some one says somewhere, 'look up and are not fed;' and the same poet well describes your pipings as being on wretched straw pipes that are 'scrannel' -- a good word."
  • "Then the still air of the red room was split with a scrannel hiss, like the sudden escape of live steam. jorn had no time to puzzle over the sudden inaccessibility of the Director; everything abruptly was going too fast."
  • "His fine and highly trained ear disliked the frequent harshness of their versification, their indifference to the well-ordered melody of vowel and consonant, the grating, 'scrannel pipe' concatenations which he notes so scornfully in the verse of Bishop Hall:"
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