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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wrastle wrastled wrastling

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

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

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

Then Bill begged to have a special deacon told off to wrastle with him, but Doc wouldn’t listen to that.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer

Quit bickerin' with me, little one, an' see if you can't wrastle up some ham an' eggs.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant

But by this time he was gone; so we all turns back to wrastle with this sad man, who evident was intending to mix it with us.

From The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

He wrastled it round and round and blew on it, and turned over pages and folded it back—Gee, there was a lot of it.

From Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung

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

I prayed and wrastled that I might find it, master,” he cried, with flashing eyes, “and my prayer is heard.”

From The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

We wrastled some in the road—the dust blinded me.

From The Lady of Big Shanty by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

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

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

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

In this quaint old quarto volume, the author discourses on the ancient art of "wrastling" as becometh one reared on Cumbrian soil.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin

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