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Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

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

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

Scuffle :: Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

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..

Gymnastical :: Gymnastical (a.) Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc..

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

Wrestler :: Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..

Catachrestical :: Catachrestical (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched..

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..

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..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Trip :: Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing..

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