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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Say, it looks as if you'll have to wrastle with the pots and pans till to-morrow.
From The Uphill Climb by Bower, B. M.
Then I begin to warm right up, I whistle "Yankee Doodle" through, An' wrastle with the collie pup— And sometimes gran'dad whistles too.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean
But by this time he was gone; so we all turns back to wrastle with this sad man, who evident was intending to mix it with us.
From The Man Next Door by Hough, Emerson
"I wish you'd wrastle with the devil a bit more," he said.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
He begun to wrastle with the feller that had the rope.
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
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