wrest

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To pull or twist violently.
2. fiil To obtain by pulling or violent force.

   “He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.”

3. fiil To seize.

   “[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; [...]”

4. fiil To distort, to pervert, to twist.

   “And I beſeech you / Wreſt once the Law to your authority, / To do a great right, do a little wrong, / And curbe this cruell deuill of his will.”

5. fiil To tune with a wrest, or key.

   “The Harpe. A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye”

6. isim The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
7. isim A key to tune a stringed instrument.

   “The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge”

8. isim Active or motive power.

   “Adowne he keſt it with ſo puiſſant wreſt, / That backe againe it did alofte rebowned, / And gaue againſt his mother earth a gronefull ſownd.”

9. isim Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
10. isim A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
11. isim 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.