scumber

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  1. To defecate; dung: a hunting term applied especially to foxes. [Provincial English] And for a monument to after-commers Their picture shall continue (though Time scummers Vpon th' Effigie). Davies, Commendatory Verses, p. 13. (Davies.) Just such a one [an airing] as you use to a brace of greyhounds, When they are led out of their kennels to scumber. Massinger, The Picture, v. 1.
  2. Dung, especially that of the fox. [Provincial English]

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  1. Also scomber, scummer; perhaps from Old French escumbrier, disencumber; cf. exonerate in similar use.
  2. from scumber. v.
 

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