scraunch

Then comes a long scraunch, and a thunderous rattle of blocks; a sail goes with a report like a gun; the vessels bump a few times, and then one draws away, leaving the other with bows staved in.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

I want you to understand that the evangelist and the sceptic both were prepared to hear the scraunch of the collision on that deadly night; they had seen two entire ships 'companies lost since they came out, yet they would not give in or look serious altogether.

A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

You must tell him which one to attack with his key preliminary to the scraunch. "

Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870