Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
wrastle or ras·sle, ras·tle [ras-uh l]Dialect ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with or without object), wras·tled, wras·tling, noun
Origin of wrastle 1200–50; Middle English wrastlen, variant of wrestlen to wrestle Examples from the Web for wrastle Historical Examples of wrastle
You see, I like to ‘wrastle’ with things and fight off the worst.
Amanda Minnie Douglas
At dat place she come up to me an’ says, ‘Samson, I’ll wrastle you!’
George Alfred Townsend
His sone Wrastle dyed a yonge man unmaried; his sone Love lived till this year 1650.
Bradford’s History of ‘Plimoth Plantation’
William Bradford
Wrastle it out each day and, win er lose, forgit it in yer sleep.
Frederick Orin Bartlett
You’re both too green and too soft to wrastle ’round down amongst folks.
The Deserter, and Other Stories
Harold Frederic