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

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

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..

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