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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

take to one's scrapers en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To run away.
    • ‘I let out one yell tuh wake the dead and took to muh scrapers.’ 1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 145:
    • He gave up the gold, and he took to his scrapers. 1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, page 295:

Forms

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takes to one's scrapers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
took to one's scrapers Tense=Past lexicographic
taking to one's scrapers Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taken to one's scrapers Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic