wrest🔊

To pull or twist violently.

To obtain by pulling or violent force.

(figuratively) To seize.

(figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

(music) To tune with a wrest, or key.

The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.

(obsolete) Active or motive power.

(obsolete, rare) A hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf; a saw set.

A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

(agriculture, dated, dialectal) 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.