wrastle

or ras·sle, ras·tle

[ras-uh l]Dialect

verb (used with or without object), wras·tled, wras·tling, noun

wrestle.

Origin of wrastle

1200–50; Middle English wrastlen, variant of wrestlen to wrestle

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Examples from the Web for wrastle

Historical Examples of wrastle

You see, I like to 'wrastle' with things and fight off the worst.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
Amanda Minnie Douglas
At dat place she come up to me an' says, 'Samson, I'll wrastle you!'
The Entailed Hat
George Alfred Townsend
His sone Wrastle dyed a yonge man unmaried; his sone Love lived till this year 1650.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'
William Bradford
Wrastle it out each day and, win er lose, forgit it in yer sleep.
The Web of the Golden Spider
Frederick Orin Bartlett
You're both too green and too soft to wrastle 'round down amongst folks.
The Deserter, and Other Stories
Harold Frederic