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Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

Force :: Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc..

Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Pull :: Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull..

Close :: Close (n.) A grapple in wrestling.

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

Xystus :: Xystus (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..

Overwrestle :: Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..

Overwrest :: Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general..

Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..

Distortion :: Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.

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