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.
I kin ride, wrastle, drive a bull team ag’in ary man from the States, an’ I got the gift o’ tongues.
From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton
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
And if ever you find a taste for statuary growing on you, William, keep it down, wrastle with it, and don't encourage it.
From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard
Ye oughter try liftin' some o' them drummers' sample-cases that I hatter wrastle with.
From How Janice Day Won by Long, Helen Beecher
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