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.