OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 21609

wrestle

/ˈɹɛsl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
luchar
To grapple or otherwise contend with an opponent in order to throw or force them to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.
I am confident, were there a scene written, wherein Pinkethman should break his leg by wrestling with Bullock, and Dickey come in to set it, without one word said but what should b…
[H]e [Kerkuon or Cercyon of Eleusis] challenges all comers to wrestle with him, for he is the best wrestler in all Attica, and overthrows all who come; and those whom he overthrows…