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Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Overwrestle :: Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling..

Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

Wrestler :: Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..

Detort :: Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.

Palestrical :: Palestrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Agonize :: Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

Lock :: Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling.

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