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单词 counter-scuffle
释义 ˈcounter-ˌscuffle Obs.
[counter- 11.]
A scuffle between opposing parties or persons. (Sometimes, humorously, a scuffle in the Counter prison.)
1628R. S. (title), The Counter Scuffle, whereunto is added the Counter Ratt.1656Artif. Handsom. 154 What fierce conflicts and counter-scuffles have been among people of various minds.a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. (1703) II. 540 The Counter-scuffle at Petherton-Bridge, when two of his own Parties..fought with each other.1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. Argt. 30 This Counter-Scuffle, I dare stand in't, The Goddess Discord had a hand in't.
So counter-ˈscuffler, one who engages in a counter-scuffle; a competitor.
a1672Wood Life (1848) 37 note, The Mertonian counter-scufflers..tug as hard for a postmaster's place as commons.
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