scuffle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
2. v. To shuffle.
3. n. A rough disorderly struggle at close quarters.
4. n. A hoe that is manipulated by pushing or pulling. Also called Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To push or fight in a disorderly or scrambling manner; struggle confusedly at close quarters.
2. Synonyms See quarrel, n.
3. n. A confused pushing or struggle; a disorderly rencounter or fight.
4. n. Synonyms Affray, Brawl, etc. See quarrel.
5. n. A form of garden hoe or thrust-hoe which is pushed instead of pulled, and commonly has a narrow, sharp blade set nearly in line with the handle: used for cutting off weeds beneath the surface of the ground.
6. n. A child's pinafore or bib.
7. To use a scuffle or thrust-hoe.

Wiktionary

1. n. A rough disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters
2. n. A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling
3. n. archaic A child's pinafore or bib.
4. v. intransitive To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
5. v. intransitive To walk with a shuffling gait.
6. v. slang To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
2. v. Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
3. n. A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
4. n. Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
5. n. Prov. Eng. A child's pinafore or bib.
6. n. Prov. Eng. A garden hoe.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. walk by dragging one's feet
2. n. an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
3. n. disorderly fighting
4. n. a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
5. v. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters