skrimmage

English

Noun

skrimmage (plural skrimmages)

1. Alternative spelling of scrimmage
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?

Verb

skrimmage (third-person singular simple present skrimmages, present participle skrimmaging, simple past and past participle skrimmaged)

1. Alternative spelling of scrimmage