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

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Example Sentences

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wrastle wrastled wrastling

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 J. Clinton Shepherd

Say, it looks as if you'll have to wrastle with the pots and pans till to-morrow.

From The Uphill Climb by B. M. Bower

"I wish you'd wrastle with the devil a bit more," he said.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

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 Eleanor Mercein Kelly

For aw can wrastle ony chap mi own weight, an' aw'll set misen agean th' world for bein a judge ov a gooid maily puttate.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley

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

Night after night I wrastled in prayer fur un, but 'ee wad'n altered.

From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

I hadn't wrastled with that pie ez unsuccessful ez I seemed.

From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

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

“Simon as well might tackle Ethan Allen himself as to have wrastled with Jonas,” he said....

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster

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

Ole Marster has come back, to clare the name of his grandchile, for he and his murderer is a wrastling, and it ain't no 'oman, it's a man!

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

So, after a time, he proposed to Brutus that they should settle matters by "a scat to wrastling," the best man, of course, to have the country.

From Cornwall's Wonderland by Mabel Quiller-Couch

So they put up a giant by the name of Jack Armstrong as their champion and arranged a "wrastling" match.

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham

That thee is sent, receyve in buxumnesse, The wrastling for this worlde axeth a fal.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long

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