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

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

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 can keep a tally book and order up the grub from Bender; but, durn the luck, when it comes to makin’ love on paper I’d rather wrastle a bear.

From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon

But in de fall er de year his grapes begun ter straighten out, en his j'ints ter git stiff, en his ha'r drap off, en de rheumatiz begin ter wrastle wid 'im.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

And my old hoss can wrastle a bag of oats, too.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter

Jemmy stopped up on that patch where you and me wrastled, and let me down with a rope.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg

"I tell yuh, sah, that if it hadn't been foh all o' the lot that wrastled with him, he would a-come up hisself with the little gal, 'stead o' lettin' me do that same."

From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by St. George Rathborne

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

We wrastled all over the place, playing plain stick-to-him-Pete.

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

So he turn de matter ober an' ober in his min', an' he wrastled with his 'victions, but he couldn't come ter no 'clusion.

From Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences by Frank Richard Stockton

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

Dar's war my toughness and wrastling powers show themselves.

From Brave Tom The Battle That Won by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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

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

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

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

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