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

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

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

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..

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..

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

Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.

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

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

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

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

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

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..

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..

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