Many scratches (6)
I believe the answer is:
scores
I believe this is a double definition.
'many' is the first definition.
(thesaurus)
'scratches' is the second definition.
(score is a kind of scratch)
(Other definitions for scores that I've seen before include "Records" , "Puts ball in the net" , "Sets of twenty" , "Scratches" , "Written forms of a musical composition" .)