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Scrummage

noun
1.
(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 is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession.  Synonym: scrum.





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"Scrummage" Quotes from Famous Books



... lad; I got a tidy chop aside of the head, and a kick in the ribs from a horse in the scrummage. Leastwise, it wasn't a kick, 'cause it was done with a fore leg, when somebody's horse reared up after I'd cut his ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Scrummage" :   rugby, rugger, start, rugby football, beginning, commencement, scrum


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