A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.
From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake.
Something extremely easy.
A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
Strife, contention, great effort.
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.