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English
Etymology
Middle English wrastlen. See wrestle.
Pronunciation
Verb
wrastle (third-person singular simple present wrastles, present participle wrastling, simple past and past participle wrastled)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete or British, dialectal or US, informal) To wrestle (someone or something).
c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; , London: Thomas Maxey, for R Marriot, G Bedel, and T Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 11:[H]e [the Earl of Essex] vvas to vvraſtle vvith a Queens declyning, or rather vvith her very ſetting Age (as vve may term it,) vvhich, beſides other reſpects, is commonly even of it ſelfe the more umbratious and apprehenſive, as for the moſt part all Horizons are charged vvith certain Vapours tovvards their Evening.
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