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Down :: Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down..

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

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.

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

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

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

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters..

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

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling..

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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