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

A key to tune a stringed instrument.

Active or motive power.

Short for saw wrest; a saw set.

To pull or twist violently.

To obtain by pulling or violent force.

Example: He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.

To seize.

To distort, to pervert, to twist.

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

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.