Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrumming
Literary usage of Scrumming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gas and Oil Engine by Sir Dugald Clerk, Dugald Clerk (1896)
"scrumming.—Improvements in, and apparatus for, superheating steam and applying
the same to steam engines. 5072. Southall.—Improvements in gas or oil motor ..."
2. The Secrets of a Kuttite: An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity by Edward Opotiki Mousley (1921)
"There followed, as usual, a wild scramble and fearful scrumming around the lines,
as we were not awakened until five minutes before leaving. ..."
3. Mines Register: Successor to the Mines Handbook and the Copper Handbook edited by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Garfield Neale, Lenox Hawes Rand, Edward Barney Sturgis, Joseph Zimmerman (1906)
"Mining is almost exclusively scrumming old ground and robbing pillars, lower
levels having been gutted. The pillars removed are usually of good grade, ..."
4. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1904)
"Some scrumming then took place, ¡ind in spite of the desperate efforts of our
backs they got in ..."
5. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1901)
"We lost the toss and kicked off against the wind. The game immediately settled
down about midfield, the tackling and scrumming on ..."
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