The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scuffle \Scuf"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffling.] [Freq. of scuff, v.i.; cf. Sw. skuffa to push, shove, skuff a push, Dan. skuffe a drawer, a shovel, and E. shuffle, shove. See Shove, and cf. Shuffle.]
To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
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Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
A gallant man had rather fight to great disadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble.
--Eikon Basilike.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: scuffle)
Usage examples of "scuffled".
He came to his favourite rabbit, named Chelsea, and reached in as usual to rub him affectionately behind the ears, but the animal scuffled back away from him and cringed into a corner, the pink-rimmed eyes staring up blank and terrified.
Then she scuffled away across the snowy field like a small hunched animal.
It was agreed I could not be permitted to stand there indecently exposed, but the crowd beyond the gate grew so uproarious, especially when I turned to retrieve my watch (whose neck-chain too had caught on the Turnstile and been snapped), that the gatekeepers abandoned self-control and scuffled with each other.
It scuffled savagely and for an instant the three rabbits saw its round, dark eyes looking straight down the run.
Holly, bearing it as well as he could, growled and scuffled, and Silver cast about for something to occupy his attention.
Foster had merely scuffled this up in the course of his laborious progress.
The dirt had been scuffled and shoved about, as if some large animal had tracked through it.