wrenches

/ɹɛnt͡ʃɪs/

noun

1
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
2
An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
3
A trick or artifice.
4
Deceit; guile; treachery.
5
A turn at an acute angle.
6
A winch or windlass.
7
A screw.
8
A distorting change from the original meaning.
9
A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
10
An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
11
A violent emotional change caused by separation.
12
In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
13
Means; contrivance
14
In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.

1
To violently move in a turn or writhe.
2
To pull or twist violently.
“With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.”
3
To turn aside or deflect.
4
To slander.
5
To tighten with or as if with a winch.
6
To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
“Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!”
7
To distort from the original meaning.
8
To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
9
To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
10
To rack with pain.
11
To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
12
To use the tool known as a wrench.
“The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.”

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