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

See Examples For:

wrastle wrastled wrastling

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

"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

He begun to wrastle with the feller that had the rope.

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates

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

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter

Either leave it mighty pronto, or wrastle with it till you're a man at the game.

From The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

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

And he didn't seem to want to go neither, though he wrastled for his hat, very perlite and gay, and I could see the glisten of her white teeth through the spyglass.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

That's what the father said—aye, or somethin' mighty like it; but I told him, I wrastled with him till he savvied.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various

“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

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

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

Examples of it are xliii greting, 166, dreping, i.e. slaughter, 2684, buttinge, skirming, wrastling, putting, harping, piping, reding; see ll. 2322-2327.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

It was all wrastling, and no knives or pistols.

From The Black Bar by M.L.P.

It took me several years of wrastling with life," he was fond of saying, "to find out that it ain't so much matter whar you be, as what you be.

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Emma G. Moore

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