They heard a scrabbling on the stairs. It was Einstein. ' Can someone give me a paw up?' he shouted.
I read the above in my son's reading book Puppies online by Jennifer Gray & Amanda Swift.
What does "scrabbling" mean here? Is it a gerund made from the verb "scrabble"?
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