wrastle

American  

[ras-uhl] / ˈræs əl /

Or rassle,

verb (used with or without object)

wrastled, wrastling

1. wrestle.

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Etymology

Origin of wrastle

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

Example Sentences

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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 Robert Fitzgerald

They’ll probably have to wrastle ’em again to-morrow.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

Every time I cook a meal," he went on, chuckling, "I think about the time Flour Sack Jim hired out to wrastle grub for that Englishman.

From Hidden Gold by Wilder Anthony

I’ll wrastle you any time you like, Crow Wing.

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster

“S’pose you wrastle it out for yourself–same as us humans.”

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton

Then I got right mad, and I run in on him agin, and this time I got to him, and wrastled with him.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Part of my mind talked to him, part wrastled with Mary's hints and the other part kept up a wondering why and what, for I felt for that man a whole-hearted kid's worship.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

And he didn't seem to want to go neither, though he wrastled for his hat, very perlite and gay, and I could see the glisten of her white teeth through the spyglass.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

"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 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

So I sat misen down on a stool and glowered into the fire, and wrastled wi' the deevil same as Jacob wrastled wi' the angel.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman

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

Examples of it are xliii greting, 166, dreping, i.e. slaughter, 2684, buttinge, skirming, wrastling, putting, harping, piping, reding; see ll. 2322-2327.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

That thee is sent, receyve in buxomnesse, The wrastling for this worlde axeth a fall.

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

Others with plentiful copies, some coupled togither with bands, and others wrastling as they did, riding vppon Hipposatamies, and other sundrie and vncoth beastes, with a Chiloneall defence.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington

I've been wrastling with this turrible lumbago, and I'm 'fraid it's affecting my hearing.

From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln