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plural scrummages
(rugby) An ordered formation of forwards, typically bending down, binding to one another with their arms, and pushing opponents shoulder to shoulder, in which each side aims to gain control of the ball; a scrum. examples
(American football, rare) A scrimmage.
Dated form of scrimmage (“a rough fight”). quotations examples
How would you like a scrummage, Andy, with them Scotchmen that stole your mother's chickens this morning?
1835, John Pendleton Kennedy, Horse Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
third-person singular simple present scrummages, present participle scrummaging, simple past and past participle scrummaged
(rugby) To engage in an ordered formation of forwards in which each side aims to gain control of the ball, as described above. examples