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Definition of Tussling
1. tussle [v] - See also: tussle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tussling
Literary usage of Tussling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The play of animals by Karl Groos (1898)
"(6) tussling among young animals. Before entering fully on this part of my subject
I am going to cite a case that is to some degree problematical, ..."
2. The Play of Man by Karl Groos (1901)
"Unprovoked tussling merely for the fun of the thing seldom appears earlier ...
In this youthful tussling the chief aim is to throw one's opponent to the ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"Sell Boyd said at the coroner's inquest that they were tussling over a gun, and
she got shot; ... He said that in tussling over the gun, the gun went off. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"... and who had with others been talking loud and using profane language and was
of a party that had been tussling with each other and doing other acts more ..."
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