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

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..

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

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

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

Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

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

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

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

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..

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

Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

Xystus :: Xystus (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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