Grapples with, slangily

• Grapples with, as a critter
• Tangles with, in the country
• Gets down 'n' dirty
• Gits in a scrap (with)
• Fights with, in the hills
• Struggles with, as a critter
• Grapples, in dialect
• Grapples, in the sticks

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: rassle)