Word Meanings - SCUFFLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

push, Dan. skuffe a drawer, a shovel, and E. shuffle, shove. See 1. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. 2. Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard. A gallant man had

Additional info about word: SCUFFLE

push, Dan. skuffe a drawer, a shovel, and E. shuffle, shove. See 1. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. 2. 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.

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• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
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  Shoveler.
• ROUGHLEG
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• WRESTLE
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• ROUGHCAST
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• FASHIONED
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