v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. [ 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 ]
n. [ AS. wr&aemacr_;stlere. ] One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]