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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general..

Conistra :: Conistra (n.) Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater..

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

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

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

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

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