"tight scratch" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tight scratches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tight scratch (plural tight scratches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We had a considerable tight scratch with about an equal number of the British."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A combat requiring arduous effort."
      ],
      "id": "en-tight_scratch-en-noun-yLUBPu-n",
      "links": [
        [
          "combat",
          "combat"
        ],
        [
          "arduous",
          "arduous"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A combat requiring arduous effort."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tight scratch"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tight scratches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tight scratch (plural tight scratches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We had a considerable tight scratch with about an equal number of the British."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A combat requiring arduous effort."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "combat",
          "combat"
        ],
        [
          "arduous",
          "arduous"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A combat requiring arduous effort."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tight scratch"
}