WRESTLE

Wrestle. Wrestle
(Eph. 6:12). See GAMES.

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wrestle. Wrestle, v.i. to struggle, to throw with the arms extended, to strive with effort

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Wres″tle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wrestled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling (?).] [[OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr�stlian, freq. of wr�stan to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t.]] 1. 1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman. 2. 2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi. 12. Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold.