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To subdue by wrestling. [Obs.] Spenser.

A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

mance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. Carew.

A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

locate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.

In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. Abp. Bramhall.

at escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.

One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.