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Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

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

Trip :: Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing..

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

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

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..

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Overwrestle :: Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.

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