Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scrawl

Scrawl , intransitive verb

See Crawl. [Obsolete] — Latimer

Scrawl , transitive verb

[Probably corrupted from scrabble.]

To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.
His name, scrawled by himself. — Macaulay

Scrawl , intransitive verb

To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl. — Swift

Scrawl (skral) , noun

Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. — Arbuthnot
You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. — Gray