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

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..

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

Trip :: Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing..

Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

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

Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

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

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

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