Usually means: Unplanned killing in sudden fight.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word chance-medley:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. chance-medley: Merriam-Webster
  2. chance-medley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chance-medley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chance-medley, chance-medley: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chance-medley: Vocabulary.com
  6. chance-medley: Wordnik
  7. chance-medley: Wiktionary
  8. chance-medley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chance-medley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chance-medley: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Chance-medley, chance-medley: Dictionary.com
  12. Chance-medley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. chance-medley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. chance-medley: Rhymezone
  15. Chance-medley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. chance-medley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. chance-medley: FreeDictionary.org
  18. chance-medley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. chance-medley: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Chance-medley: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chance-medley)

noun:  (law, historical) The killing of another in self-defence upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter.
noun:  (obsolete) Luck; chance; accident.

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