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Pentathlon :: Pentathlon (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear..

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

Wrested :: Wrested (imp. & p. p.) of Wres.

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.

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

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

Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

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

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

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.

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

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

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

Scuffle :: Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

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

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

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..

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

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

Gymnastical :: Gymnastical (a.) Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc..

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