skirmisher

1) From an Old French word for a fencing-master which survived as the surname Scrimgeour (R&W).

1202 Inter Reginaldum Eskermissur ... et Radulfum le Waut’, Teesdale

1298 ‘the wife of le Scirmissour for a house 12d’, Scarborough.

dates 1202 1298

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