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Scrum

noun
1.
(rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession.  Synonym: scrummage.






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"Scrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... field cursing and swearing. His voice thundered over the ground. It was the first game after the summer holidays, and everyone felt rather flabby. At half-time the great man burst out: "I have played football for twenty-five years, I coached Oxford teams and Gloucestershire teams, led an English scrum, and for fifteen years I have taught footer here, but never saw I such a display! Shirking, the whole lot of you! Get your shoulders down and shove. Never saw anything like it. Awful!" The Bull said this to every ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh



Words linked to "Scrum" :   rugger, rugby, beginning, start, rugby football, commencement



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