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

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

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

And ef you can’t wrastle your temper and down it as you did Jud, you’re not a fust-class fighter.”

From David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

Gude-sake! gi’e up that, and lairne to wrastle and throw the caber and put the stane.

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville

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

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