n.
  - a confused struggle or fight.
- American Football  a sequence of play beginning with the placing of the ball on the ground with its longest axis at right angles to the goal line.
v.
 American Football  engage in a scrimmage. 
▸put (the ball) into a scrimmage.
Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: alt. of dial. scrimish, var. of skirmish.