To scramble, struggle, or move awkwardly in a disorderly fashion; an archaic or dialectal variant.
Likely from 'cramm-' (to cram) blended with 'scramble'; dialectal English with roots in Middle English movement and struggle verbs.
This word is a fossil of how English once had dozens of similar sound-alike words for messy movement—before our ancestors standardized on 'scramble,' people experimented with 'cramble'!
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