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scrummage
Alternative clues for the word scrummage
- (rugby football) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms
- Extremely specific search for bunch of players
- Forward movement not entirely substandard, guru admits
- Play starts when the ball thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession
- Rugby play
Word definitions for scrummage in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage . 7. ▪ But the reality is different; collapsed scrummages appear to be on the increase, despite the obvious dangers. ▪ From a scrummage on the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession [syn: scrum ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrimmage \Scrim"mage\ (?; 48), n. [A corruption of skirmish. ``Sore scrymmishe.'' --Ld. Berners.] [Written also scrummage .] Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle. (Football) The struggle in the rush lines after ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rugby English) An ordered formation of forwards in which each side aims to gain control of the ball; a scrum. 2 (context American football rare English) A scrimmage. vb. (context rugby English) To engage in an ordered formation of forwards ...
Usage examples of scrummage.
No score and three minutes of play left, Cape Town attacking from a set scrummage, driving through a gap in the defence and then putting the ball in the air with a long raking pass, taken cleanly by the Cape Town wing without a break in his stride.
Sam Holt, Jem Taylor, Eaton and Will Bentley scurried up, in a scrummage with their men.
But there suddenly he was: a small, slim man with light brown hair, standing at the center of a scrummage of competing dinner-jackets and cocktail dresses, yet miraculously occupying a solitary point of grace and calm.
WAS BUSY that night, the dance floor a scrummage of writhing humanity.
Iven cast her a rueful glance, knowing how much she had missed eating meat since joining company with the witches, and scrummaged in the store-barrels for something to throw the dogs.
The passengers scrummaged their way out, drumming their briefcases against the closed doors of the elevators in what seemed to be a ritual display of temper.
And there were days that packed into the space of a few hours the concentrated essence of a music-hall knock-about sketch, an earthquake, a football scrummage, and the rush-hour on the Tube.