wrastle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of wrastle
1200–50; Middle English wrastlen, variant of wrestlen to wrestle
Example Sentences
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Stranger, I reckon you ain't never been up in them barren mountings, whar men has to wrastle with the yearth and the Devil fer every mouthful of food they puts into their bellies?
From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
Accordingly, when Slike suddenly lowered his head and dodged in under Billy's guard with the evident intention of starting another "snatch and wrastle," Billy was ready, very ready.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
They’ll probably have to wrastle ’em again to-morrow.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
His conduct is as hard to swaller as a dose of them old Greek twins, Castor Oil and Politics, we use to wrastle with at school.
From The Statesmen Snowbound by Fitzgerald, Robert
But mars'r say dat bery same Wheneber he get sick, And bresséd Jesus wrastle him To make him holy quick.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Newell, Robert H.
"I tell yuh, sah, that if it hadn't been foh all o' the lot that wrastled with him, he would a-come up hisself with the little gal, 'stead o' lettin' me do that same."
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by Rathborne, St. George
So he turn de matter ober an' ober in his min', an' he wrastled with his 'victions, but he couldn't come ter no 'clusion.
From Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences by Stockton, Frank Richard
I wrastled with every page, paragraph, and sentence in that book.
From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick
"Many's the night I've wrastled with you till you war clean wore out with sleeplessness, 'fo' you'd let the child keep on at his books."
From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
But we wrastled the boat down to the water and was jest goin' to launch her when the whole three masts went by the 'board, men and all.
From Cap'n Eri by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles of Washington Mayor Marion Barry, concluding with Donne's words, "Thou knowest this man's fall, thou knowest not his wrastling."
From Time Magazine Archive
He also said that Abe could beat any man in the county running, jumping, or "wrastling."
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George
I sat still on the table, saying, "Amen! amen!" every now and then, to his prayer, till he became terribly in earnest, and at last got into a which the Cornish call "wrastling in prayer."
From From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry by Haslam, William
In a moment there was a quiver of the bank, and it went from beneath my feet, leaving me wrastling with the waters once more.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
In this quaint old quarto volume, the author discourses on the ancient art of "wrastling" as becometh one reared on Cumbrian soil.
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney
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