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  • verb Present participle of wrastle.

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Examples

  • Or maybe some WWF wrestler from the 80s after some "wrastling" session with the Randy Savage

    [Help] Most Recent Posts 2009

  • He and his friends had not the slightest personal grudge against Lincoln; but hearing the neighborhood talk about the newcomer, and especially Offut's extravagant praise of his clerk, who, according to Offut's statement, knew more than any one else in the United States, and could beat the whole county at running, jumping or "wrastling," they decided that the time had come to assert themselves, and strove to bring about a trial of strength between Armstrong and Lincoln.

    The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Helen Nicolay 1910

  • After a full day wrastling it down, and changing to 3/4 inch margins all around, I have completed the updating of my resume accent aigu x 2 there.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Heo 2007

  • After a full day wrastling it down, and changing to 3/4 inch margins all around, I have completed the updating of my resume accent aigu x 2 there.

    Random Bullets of Information Ranging from Crap to Non-Crap. In No Particular Order Heo 2007

  • He was caught last night by the self-proclaimed dean of 'gator wrestling or is it wrastling (ph), I'm not sure, Tim Williams.

    CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2004 2004

  • Then captured by the self-proclaimed dean of alligator wrastling.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2004 2004

  • Among the less affluent and less educated, honor led to a game that they called rough and tumble or a savage form of what was known then as "wrastling."

    All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence 1996

  • Other casting off their armour wrastling and togging one with another: some headlong with their heeles vpwarde, falling and not come to the ground from off their horsses.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • In the corners, & in euerry corner stoode a Chorinthian Collumne of diuers colours, waued with so pure & beautiful Iacintes as nature could affoord, with conuenient bases and their chapters curiously made vnder the beame, ouer the which was a _Zophor_, wherein were carued little naked Boyes playing in the water, with water monsters, with wrastling and childish strifes, with cunning flights and agilities fit for their yeares, in liuely motions and sportes.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Others with plentiful copies, some coupled togither with bands, and others wrastling as they did, riding vppon _Hipposatamies_, and other sundrie and vncoth beastes, with

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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