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Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..

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

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

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

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

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

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

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

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

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