wrastles

Updated: July 15, 2026

At dat place she come up to me an' says, 'Samson, I'll wrastle you! 'Go long, says I, 'I kin't wrastle no woman like you. 'You got to, she says, swearin' like a man, an' takin' holt of me jess like a man wrastles.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times

"'I gets mingled up with a wounded buck once, says Dave Tutt, takin' a dab of paint, 'an' I nacherally wrastles him down an' lops one of his front laigs over his antlers, an' thar I has him; no more harm left in him than a chamber-maid. Mine's a white-tailed deer over on the Careese.

Alfred Henry Lewis - Wolfville