wraxlev.
Obsolete exc. south-western dialect.
intransitive. To wrestle; to contend, strive. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
winc888
fightc900
flitec900
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1200
cockc1225
conteckc1290
strivec1290
struta1300
topc1305
to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
stightlea1375
debatec1386
batea1400
strugglec1412
hurlc1440
ruffle1440
warc1460
warslea1500
pingle?a1513
contend1529
repugn1529
scruggle1530
sturtc1535
tuga1550
broilc1567
threap1572
yoke1581
bustle1585
bandy1594
tilt1595
combat1597
to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
mutiny1597
militate1598
combatizec1600
scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
wage1608
contesta1618
stickle1625
conflict1628
stickle1647
dispute1656
fence1665
contrast1672
scramble1696
to battle it1715
rug1832
grabble1835
buffet1839
tussle1862
pickeer1892
passage1895
tangle1928
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)]
fightc900
deal993
wraxlec1000
skirm?c1225
makec1275
mellc1300
to fight togethera1400
meddlec1400
match1440
wring1470
cobc1540
toilc1540
strike1579
beat1586
scuffle1590
exchange blows1594
to bang it out or aboutc1600
buffeta1616
tussle1638
dimicate1657
to try a friskin1675
to battle it1821
muss1851
scrap1874
to mix it1905
dogfight1929
yike1940
to go upside (someone's) head1970
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > wrestle [verb (intransitive)]
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1100
warslea1400
ringle1648
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle
wiggle?c1225
wriggle1495
wraggle?a1513
wrabble1513
sprinklea1522
wrig1599
squirm1691
scrigglea1701
wraxle1746
squiggle1816
wiggle-waggle1827
swiggle1837
scurrifunge1894
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxii. 24 Ða wraxlode an engel wið hyne on merigen.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxiii. 578 Ic wæs..on unmætum costnungum winnende and wraxligende.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1858 Brutus hine lette witie..fort lete fondien of his main stronge, to wraxli to vore Brutus.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 24699 Somme þar wraxlede and wiþer-game makede.
c1305 St. Swithin in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 45 Þe baldelikere hi miȝte Huppe ouer diches wher hi wolde, boþe wraxli and fiȝte.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 67 Yf wratthe wraxle with þe poure he hath þe worsse ende.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 80 Þaugh couetyce wolde with þe poure wraxle þei mai nat come to-gederis.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 593 Luctor, to wraxle.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 12 [Though he] wriggled, and pawed, and wraxled, and twinned.
1851 , 1886 in Devon and Isle of Wight glossaries.
1854 Notes & Queries 16 Dec. 479 (Cornish dialect) Wroxle,..to wrestle.
Derivatives
ˈwraxling n. (also attributive) and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun]
wraxlingc1000
wrestling?c1225
warslinga1450
palaestraa1500
wrestle1593
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [adjective] > that wrestles
wrestlinga1547
wraxling1855
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 150 Luctatio, wraxlung.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 1871 Þar was mochel folk at þare wraxlinge.
1746 ‘Devoniensis’ Let. in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 408/2 Wraxling, wrestling.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 9 Wot'n go..to rail and zee the wraxlin?
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxx I'll..buy me a pair of horn-tips to my shoes, like a wraxling-man.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell cxxi. 34 Jan's wraxling ginged tha wildego.
1892 S. Hewett Peasant Speech Devon 150 A wraxling match between Joe Gooding and Dick Gollop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
v.c1000