Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal form of
wrastle for wrestle.
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Examples
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Neither can you "warstle" through the peat-bogs and snow-drifts for forty winters without a touch of rheumatism.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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Neither can you "warstle" through the peat bogs and snow drifts for forty winters without a touch of rheumatism.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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"Te Deum" sounded heavenly in its magnificence; but the heat was so tremendous that it was hard to "warstle" through the day.
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"warstle" through the peat bogs and snow drifts for forty winters without a touch of rheumatism.
A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 Ian Maclaren 1878
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"warstle" through the peat bogs and snow drifts for forty winters without a touch of rheumatism.
A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878
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For onything I ken, they may hae their wuss, but for mysel ', I wad warstle to haud my sowl waukin' (_awake_) i 'the verra article o' deith, for the bare chance o 'seein' my bonny Grizel again.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Things micht be waur, and we'll warstle through yet.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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Lots of young chaps, when they warstle through their Arts, teach the sons of swells to get a little money to gang through Diveenity.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's threatenin 'tae rise, but we' ill win through wi 'a warstle.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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There's nae doot the water's gey big, and it's threatenin 'tae rise, but we' ill win through wi 'a warstle.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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