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

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..

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

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

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

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

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning..

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..

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

Wrestling :: Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestl.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Agonize :: Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

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

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