scuffles

Noun (1)

scuffle (plural scuffles)

1. A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
   • The Dog leaps upon the Serpent, and Tears it to Pieces; but in the Scuffle the Cradle happen'd to be Overturn'd: […]1692, Roger L'Estrange, “Fab[le] CCCCLXX. A Farmer and His Servant.”, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions, London: Printed for R[ichard] Sare, T. Sawbridge...
2. (slang) Poverty; struggle.
   • But even on the scuffle / The cleaner's press was in my jeans1975, Joni Mitchell, “The Boho Dance”, in The Hissing of Summer Lawns
3. (archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

Noun (2)

scuffle (plural scuffles)

1. A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
   • Near-synonyms: collinear hoe, collineal hoe (loosely synonymous)

   Synonyms:

   scuffle hoe, Dutch hoe, collinear hoe, collineal hoe[Appendix:Glossary

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