Noah Webster
Scrawl
SCRAWL, verb transitive
1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly.
2. To write awkwardly.
SCRAWL, verb intransitive
1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl
2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use.]
SCRAWL, noun
1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing.
2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush wood.