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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scrab·ble v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrabbled p. pr. & vb. n. Scrabbling ]
 1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
    Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.   --Bunyan.
 2. To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
    David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.   --1. Sam. xxi. 13.