wrostle

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wrostle (third-person singular simple present wrostles, present participle wrostling, simple past and past participle wrostled)

  1. Obsolete form of wrestle.
    • 1868, Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, page 276:
      I wrostled, sir, between the silent orders in my bosom pulling me one way, and the written orders in my pocket-book pushing me the other, until (saving your presence) I was in a cold sweat.