Paper used for preliminary work on a (for example mathematics) problem, considered ephemeral.

To remove something by scratching. / To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it.

plural of chicken scratch

Made from scratch.

(chiefly Midland US, Southern US) The Devil.

(prizefighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest. / (figuratively, colloquial) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.

(archaic) A combat requiring arduous effort.

A copy of the edited workprint of a film made for such purposes as scoring or dubbing.

simple past tense and past participle of scratch together

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scratch together