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Wresting :: Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wres.

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

Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..

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

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

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

Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.

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

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

Pull :: Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull..

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

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

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