Definition of "scraunch" [scraunch]

• Same as scranch or scrunch.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Then comes a long scraunch, and a thunderous rattle of blocks; a sail goes with a report like a gun; the vessels bump a few times, and then one draws away, leaving the other with bows staved in."
• "I want you to understand that the evangelist and the sceptic both were prepared to hear the scraunch of the collision on that deadly night; they had seen two entire ships 'companies lost since they came out, yet they would not give in or look serious altogether."
• "You must tell him which one to attack with his key preliminary to the scraunch. ""