Skirmishing; a skirmish, encounter, fight; exchange of blows.

A combat, battle. A combat between two or more persons or animals. Not now usually applied (exc. rhetorically) to a formal duel, but suggesting…

A broil, encounter, tumult.

An act of violence; a fight. Obsolete. rare.

? Skirmish, scuffle.

An intermingling; a mixed engagement or combat, melée.

In extended use: a fight between men; a scrap, a brawl. Obsolete.

Movement as in fencing or fighting; skirmish.

A conflict, struggle, scuffle, fray; the commotion caused by this. Cf. bustle, v.1 5. Obsolete.

Confusion, disorder; indiscriminate mingling. Also: an instance of this; a confused mixture or throng; a hand-to-hand fight, a mêlée. Now rare.

A brawl, skirmish, or petty war. Obsolete.

A just or joust; a struggle, tussle. Obsolete.

A scrambling fight; an encounter with much hustling and random exchange of blows; a tussle.

An encounter; an exchange of blows.

A battle or engagement at close quarters, a hand-to-hand fight; a skirmish; a confused struggle or scuffle, esp. one involving many people. Also histo…

Tumult, disturbance; a state of confusion. Also: a fight, a quarrel. Cf. broil, n.1 a.

A vigorous or disorderly conflict; a severe struggle, a hard contest; a scuffle. in physical sense; †in quot. 1629, an assault (obsolete).

colloquial. A hand-to-hand fight, esp. between groups of people; a violent scuffle. Also: a chaotic struggle or tussle between members of a crowd; a…

A boxing contest; hence, loosely, a fight, a set-to, esp. with the fists; also, a tussle, struggle; a disturbance, row.

U.S. colloquial. A hand-to-hand fight, a skirmish; a brawl. Now rare.

a fight involving repeated exchanges of blows; also in extended use (esp. with reference to artillery warfare).

A battle or engagement at close quarters; fighting, esp. hand-to-hand fighting; spec. a tournament involving two groups of combatants; a…

An act of struggling; a resolute contest, whether physical or otherwise; a continued effort to resist force or free oneself from constraint; a…

A fight; an encounter with someone. Now rare.

A struggle, scrimmage, tussle; a boxing-match. Also gen., a contest.

Originally and chiefly Australian. A fight; a brawl. Cf. later punch-up, n.

a tussle, a set-to; also, a beginning or setting to work (in quot. attrib.).

Rough and tumble, hurly-burly. Also as a count noun: a tussle, a fight.

A scuffle, tumult. Also figurative.

Fighting; a brawl or fight; a scrap, ‘punch-up’. to take stoush: to receive a beating.

In extended use. A disturbance or mêlée; a ferocious struggle for supremacy.

slang. A fight or scrap.

A fight or dispute.

An argument, a dispute; a fight, a brawl. Occasionally as v. intransitive.

Trouble, commotion; a noisy altercation; a fight.

A fight or brawl; (in extended use) a fierce argument.

= punch-up, n.