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ˈwraxle, v. Obs. exc. s.w. dial.
Forms: 1 wraxlian, 3–4 wraxli, 4–5, 9 dial. wraxle (5 wracsle, wraskle, 9 dial. wroxle, roxle).
[OE. wraxlian = OFris. wraxlia (WFris. wrakselje, wrokselje). The orig. form of the stem may have been wrasc-; cf. OE. wrǽstlian wrestle v.]
intr. To wrestle; to contend, strive. Also fig.
c1000ælfric Gen. xxxii. 24 Ða wraxlode an engel wið hyne on meriᵹen. c1000― Saint's Lives xxiii. 578 Ic wæs..on unmætum costnungum winnende and wraxliᵹende. c1275Lay. 1858 Brutus hine lette witie..fort lete fondien of his main stronge, to wraxli to vore Brutus. Ibid. 24699 Somme þar wraxlede and wiþer-game makede. c1305St. Swithin in E.E.P. (1862) 45 Þe baldelikere hi miȝte Huppe ouer diches wher hi wolde, boþe wraxli and fiȝte. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 67 Yf wratthe wraxle with þe poure he hath þe worsse ende. Ibid. 80 Þaugh couetyce wolde with þe poure wraxle þei mai nat come to-gederis. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 593 Luctor, to wraxle. 1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 217 [Though he] wriggled, and pawed, and wraxled, and twined. 1851,1886in Devon and Isle of Wight glossaries. 1854N. & Q. 16 Dec. 479 (Cornish dialect), Wroxle,..to wrestle.
Hence ˈwraxling vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 150 Luctatio, wraxlung. c1275Lay. 1871 Þar was mochel folk at þare wraxlinge. 1746Exmoor Scolding Gloss., Wraxling, wrestling. 1837[Mrs. Palmer] Dial. Devon. Dialect 9 Wot'n go..to rail and zee the wraxlin? 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxx, I'll..buy me a pair of horn-tips to my shoes, like a wraxling-man. 1867Rock Jim an' Nell cxxi. (E.D.S.), Jan's wraxling ginged tha wildego. 1892S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 150 A wraxling match between Joe Gooding and Dick Gollop. |