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Wrench [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

2. A sprain; an injury by twisting; as in a joint.

3. An instrument for screwing or unscrewing iron work.

4. Means of compulsion. [Not used.]

5. In the plural, sleights; subtilties.

Wrench [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist or force by violence; as, to wrench a sword from anothers hand.

2. To strain; to sprain; to distort.

3. You wrenched your foot against a stone.

Wrench [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.

2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.

Wrench [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

2. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

3. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.

4. Means; contrivance.

5. An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.

6. The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.

Wrenched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Wrenching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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