1. (n.) A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

2. (v. i.) To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

3. (v. i.) To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

4. (v. i.) To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

5. (n.) A skirmish; an encounter.

6. (n.) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

7. (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

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