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1894, Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine, 1893-1894 Dec-May, p. 309:
Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.
1901, David S. Meldrum, "The Conquest of Charlotte," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v.171, 1902 Jan-Jun, pg. 128:
But Jess would not budge, and all of a sudden I sees a white flash in the dark, and hears a rattle of harness, and a scrunt in the shafts as Jess shook her head clear of the blow.
2004, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 243:
They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.
1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, Constable, page 29:
It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.
1987, David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play, publ. Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 112:
And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?
2005, Ronan O'Donnell, The Doll Tower, →ISBN, page 20:
Not slum-dweller socialist but high-class fanny socialist. [...] Socialism that drinks wine - a single bottle costs a year's pay to a fuckin scrunt like Uxbridge.
