| Wrench (wrench) |
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| n. | (r nch) |
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| Wrench |
| [OE. wrench
deceit, AS. wrenc deceit, a twisting; akin to G. rank
intrigue, crookedness, renken to bend, twist, and E. wring.
***radic]144. See Wring, and cf. Ranch, v.
t.]
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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
A violent twist, or a pull with
twisting.
A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a
joint.
Means; contrivance.
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.
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.
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| Wrench (wrench) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Wrench |
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To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force
by violence.
To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to
pervert.
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