DCHP-1 Online
spirit-wrestler † [a literal trans. of Russian dukhoborets] 
n. a member of a Christian sect founded in Russia in the 18th century, several thousand of whom settled in Western Canada at the end of the 19th century.
See also: Doukhobor
- 1916 Mavor investigated the spirit wrestlers and other forms of communities of similar character in Russia and advised that these people be immigrated into the north-west prairies.
- 1953 Does anybody know what happened with that bunch of spirit-wrestlers that was a-wandering around our district looking for the Promised Land?
- 1916 Mavor investigated the spirit wrestlers and other forms of communities of similar character in Russia and advised that these people be immigrated into the north-west prairies.