Definitionen
1.VerbTo pull or twist violently.
2.VerbTo obtain by pulling or violent force."He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel."
3.VerbTo seize.
4.VerbTo distort, to pervert, to twist.
5.VerbTo tune with a wrest, or key.
6.NounThe act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
7.NounA key to tune a stringed instrument.
8.NounActive or motive power.
9.NounEllipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
10.NounA partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
11.NounA 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.