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Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling..

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning..

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

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

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

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

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

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

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

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

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

Palestrical :: Palestrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling..

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

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..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling..

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

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

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

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