a. Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. “Crestless yeomen.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To subdue by wrestling. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. restleás. ]
Restless he passed the remnants of the night. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Restless thrush. (Zool.)
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n. [ OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tréteau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. Transom. ]
Trestle board,
Trestle bridge.
n. (Naut.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]
Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. wr&aemacr_;stlere. ] One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]