Brewer's: Set-to

( A) boxing match, a pugilistic fight, a scolding. In pugilism the combatants are by their seconds “set to the scratch” or line marked on the ground.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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