wrest
/ɹɛst/
noun
- 1
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- 2
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- 3
Active or motive power.
- 4
Short for saw wrest; a saw set.
verb
- 1
To pull or twist violently.
- 2
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
“He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.”
- 3
To seize.
- 4
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- 5
To tune with a wrest, or key.
noun
- 1
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
noun
- 1
A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
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