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wrestler|ˈrɛslə(r)|
Forms: α. 1 wræstlere, 4 wrestlere, 5 -telare, -teler, 5– wrestler, 6 wreastler. β. 3 wrastlare, 4–5 -t(e)lere, 5 -teler, -tyller, 6 -tlear, -tleer, 6–7, Sc. and dial. 9 wrastler, 9 dial. wrossler, 20– U.S. rassler, wrassler. γ. 4–5 wristeler(e, 4 -tilere, 9 dial. russ(e)ler.
[OE. wrǽstlere, agent-noun f. *wrǽstlian wrestle v. + -er1. Cf. older Flem. worsteler, Du. worstelaar.]
1. One who wrestles; esp. one who practises or is skilled in the art of wrestling, as an athlete.
c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 431 Luctatur [sic], wræstlere. a1225[see wrestle v. 1 b β]. 1382Wyclif Bible Pref. Ep. vii. (1850) 70/1 Abacuc, a strong wristeler [1388 wrastelere] and a sharp, stondith vpon his waard. 1387Trevisa Higden II. 383 Minotaurus was a grete man and huge,..and a wiȝt wrastlere. c1450Mirk's Festial i. 94 By Iacob ys vndyrstond a wrasteler. 1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. C iij 14 A wresteler..intendeth to haue y⊇ vyctory of hym yt he wrestled wt. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. Table, Diogenes mocked a wrastlear. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love B ij b, One listed to see wrestlers bestirre them in their play. 1615–6Boys Wks. (1622) 190 Runners and wrastlers contend for a crowne that shall perish. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 444 He embraces him and..lifts him above Ground, as Wrestlers do, to throw him down again. 1711Budgell Spect. No. 161 ⁋3 She was over⁓looking a Ring of Wrestlers. 1785Lond. Chron. Mar. 262/3 He was celebrated as a prize fighter, a wrestler, and a cricketer. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 44 When wrestlers join to tug each other down. 1876Gladstone Glean. (1879) II. 351 As a Cumbrian wrestler struggles..to get a good grip of his antagonist. 1900F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley's Philos. 207 He was a gr-reat rassler an' whin he had a full Nelson on th' foolish man that wint again him, he used to say, ‘Dear me, am I breakin' ye'er neck, I hope so.’ 1901N. Lloyd Chronic Loafer vi, I was the best wrastler in the walley. 1941J. Thurber in Sat. Even. Post 5 Apr. 10/3 ‘Wrasslers,’ says Magrew, cold-like, ‘that's what I've got for a ball club, Mr. Du Monville, wrasslers—and not very good wrasslers at that.’
fig.1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xvii. 317 The prayers of Mr. Knox..were mighty wrestlers with God. 1721Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 596 He is..a great favourite, and mighty wrestler in prayer. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. xii. 52 The hallow'd wrestler [St. Dominic], gentle to his own, And to his enemies terrible.
2. fig. One who strives or contends with difficulties, against adverse conditions, etc.
a1340Hampole Psalter xiii. 11 For iacob is als mykill at say as wrestlere or supplantere of syn. ― Cant. 514 Iacob,..þat is, wristilere agayns vicys. c1454Pecock Folewer 114 In hem þat ben with passions bisi wrastlers. 1577Hanmer Eccl. Hist. To Rdr., The valiant wrastlers, and inuincible champions of Christ Iesu. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes xv, He shall see in those young things..little wrestlers with him for his daily bread. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life ii. iv. 72 Experienced wrestlers with fate and fortune. 1964N. Mailer in Esquire Nov. 170/4 He was just another hog-wrassler of rhetoric.
3. Western U.S. One who throws cattle for the purpose of branding.
1888Roosevelt in Century Mag. April 861/2 The calf-wrestlers, grimy with blood, dust, and sweat, work like beavers.
4. Comb., as wrestler-like; wrestler frog, the S. American ‘wrestling’ frog, Rana luctator.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xv. 329 He will prooue faire, fat, ful of bloud, & b[l]ockish, which habit Hippocrates called wrastler-like. 1616Chapman tr. Musæus G 6, Notus and Boreas wrastler like imbrace. 1892W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata iv. 77 Plate, Wrestler frog. [Ibid. 76 The frog,..catching two of my fingers round with its fore legs, administered a hug.] |