Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scuffles, or takes part in a scuffle.
- noun In agriculture, a kind of horse-hoe, or plow with a share somewhat like an arrow-head, used between drills of turnips or similar plants for rooting out weeds and stirring the soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who scuffles.
- noun An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.
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- noun One who
scuffles . - noun An
agricultural implement resembling ascarifier , but usually lighter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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After Wetterich, a career scuffler, won his first and only PGA Tour tournament last spring, he couldn't help but hope that Mark Todd Wetterich was smiling down on him from the best grandstand seat in the sky.
Brother provides inspiration as Wetterich leads Masters 2007
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Do you call a 'bread roll' a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler?
March 2007 2007
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Fertik, the founder of Democrats. com and a veteran online scuffler of national repute since the 2000 recount, wasn't pleased (as reported by Sam Stein on HuffPo):
Obama on No. 1 Change.gov Question: Let's Punt reudgedut 2009
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One more penniless scuffler, living in a rooming house and depending on his Jewish friend in the next bed to peddle his constipated watercolors–inevitably to otherJews.
The Volokh Conspiracy » HITLER’S LEGACY: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: 2007
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Paw was bound I'd ride the Horse with the scuffler all day, but he gee'd too short an 'I arranged to tumble off'n him, an' Paw cuffled me foot some.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Wilkinson was reduced, a scuffler, a hit-and-hoper, a guy whose radar was completely scrambled.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It was Piri Weepu's turn to try to claim the No9 shirt on Saturday but, shrewd scuffler that he is, Weepu is no more fluent than Andy Ellis or Jimmy Cowan.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Cleary 2011
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Wilkinson was reduced, a scuffler, a hit-and-hoper, a guy whose radar was completely scrambled.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Signings in the window a striker that hasn't scored since 2008, a midfield scuffler from Coventry and a centre half from Leeds reserves.
The Guardian World News Tom Lutz 2011
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Wilkinson was reduced, a scuffler, a hit-and-hoper, a guy whose radar was completely scrambled.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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