A rough encounter; a “muss.”
1812. A scouting party got into a scrape with the same number of Indians.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 19.
1904. Keep your good things for your Rebel brethren, they will need all they can get before they get through with this scrap.—J. H. Claiborne, ‘Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia,’ p. 215.
