camp-fight

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CAMP-FIGHT, noun In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions, for the decision of a controversy. [Camp in W. Is a game, and campiaw is to contend.]
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