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Xystus :: Xystus (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather..

Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

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

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses..

Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..

Wrestling :: Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestl.

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

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

Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.

Wrastle :: Wrastle (v. i.) To wrestle.

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning..

Catachrestical :: Catachrestical (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched..

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

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

Overwrest :: Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

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

Outwrest :: Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

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