A bit, as in “a chunk of a fight.”
1833. He played loo, drank deep, and on proper occasions “took a small chunk of a fight.”—James Hall, ‘Legends of the West,’ p. 46 (Phila.).
1833. In them days, if a man got into a chunk of a fight with his neighbour, a lawyer would clear him for half a dozen muskrat skins, and the justice and constable would have scorned to take a fee, more than just a treat or so.—Id., p. 50.
1856. Some have characterized [the beating of Charles Sumner by Preston S. Brooks] as a mere “chunk of a fight”; others as an assault and battery.—Mr. Etheridge of Tennessee, House of Repr., July 12: Cong. Globe, p. 822, Appendix.
