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▪ I. ˈscrimmaging, ˈscrummaging, vbl. n.
[f. scrimmage v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb.
1887Shearman Athletics & Football 304 It became necessary to choose some for their scrimmaging, and others for their dribbling and following up. 1889Field 26 Jan. 123/1 A lot of fast scrummaging was indulged in. 1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 66 Scrummaging,..a term used in the old style of foot-ball to indicate a series of efforts at goal without material results. 1955Times 3 Aug. 3/7 They were beaten by nine points to six by superior scrummaging, prodigious kicking, and keen tackling. 1978Rugby World Apr. 44/3 The selectors..dropped Faulkner and Quinnell, reducing the efficiency of the scrummaging.
b. attrib.
1887Field 19 Nov. 790/1 The forwards are a capital set in the open, but lack scrummaging power. 1887Shearman Athletics & Football 305 The loose scrimmaging system.
▪ II. ˈscrimmaging, ppl. a.
[f. scrimmage v. + -ing2.]
That scrimmages; bustling, fussy.
1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xiv. (1893) 75 Mrs. Jawleyford..was a very scrimmaging, rough-and-ready sort of woman. Ibid. lii. 293 Their management [pack of hounds] was only of the scrimmaging order. |