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

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

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..

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

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

Overwrest :: Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

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.

Scuffle :: Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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