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rassling

vb. (present participle of rassle English)

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rassling

n. the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down [syn: wrestling, grappling]

Usage examples of "rassling".

Alvin knew it wouldn’t be right to best his master using some secret knack—it’d be like slipping a knife into a rassling match.

For it was sure he’d be no match for Alvin rassling, not with Al so young and tall and so much terrible righteous fire in his heart.

The man they called Mike was bigger and stronger than any of the others, and as he stripped his shirt off, Al saw that while he had a scar or two, he was mostly clean, and he had both his ears, a sure sign that if he ever lost a rassling match, he sure never lost bad.

He wasn’t solemn, neither, and spent more than a few afternoons down in the square, proving to the strongest farmers in Vigor Church that they weren’t no match for a blacksmith’s arms and shoulders in a rassling match.

Alvin knew it wouldn't be right to best his master using some secret knack-- it'd be like slipping a knife into a rassling match.

For it was sure he'd be no match for Alvin rassling, not with Al so young and tall and so much terrible righteous fire in his heart.

He wasn't solemn, neither, and spent more than a few afternoons down in the square, proving to the strongest farmers in Vigor Church that they weren't no match for a blacksmith's arms and shoulders in a rassling match.

I was doing my best, slugging, kicking, rassling and ever and anon sinking my fangs into his hide, but I never see the Chinaman that could fight like this ‘un fought.

Come with me, Bearfield,” I says, getting a good rassling grip on his neck.