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

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

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

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

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

Distortion :: Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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

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

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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