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

"Now, Deacon Smiff, please pass de box while I watch de signs an' see if dere's any one in dis congregation dat needs me ter wrastle in prayer fer him."

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning

But mars'r say dat bery same Wheneber he get sick, And bresséd Jesus wrastle him To make him holy quick.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell

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

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 Bernard Partridge

Ye oughter try liftin' some o' them drummers' sample-cases that I hatter wrastle with.

From How Janice Day Won by Helen Beecher Long

Once I was wrastled by a cinnamon bear that had lately become a mother; but the poor old thing would have lost her life with this dame after the hand-embroidereds.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

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

After I’d wrastled with the subject up hill an’ down dale, till I couldn’t see nothin’ else in the face of natur’, I done it.

From The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond

I have done me duty by thim, Mike, an' I have wrastled with thim, an' rolled in th' lake with thim.

From The Water goats and other troubles by Ellis Parker Butler

However does Coyote get wrastled by that badger?

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

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

I sat still on the table, saying, "Amen! amen!" every now and then, to his prayer, till he became terribly in earnest, and at last got into a which the Cornish call "wrastling in prayer."

From From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry by William Haslam

"Yes, and he can beat any man in the country running, jumping, or wrastling."

From Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Paula Hutchison

The place where Brute is said to haue first landed, was Totnes in Cornwall, and therefore this wrastling likely to haue chaunced there, sooner then elsewhere.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

It was all wrastling, and no knives or pistols.

From The Black Bar by M.L.P.

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