Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch.
Coleridge.
Scrive"ner (? or ?), n. [From older scrivein, OF. escrivain, F.
écrivain, LL. scribanus, from L. scribere to write. See Scribe.] 1. A
professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or
prepare writings. Shak.
The writer better scrivener than clerk.
Fuller.
2. One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. [Obs.]
Dryden.