Our country's cause,
That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand. Addison.

They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings. Macaulay.

Wrest once the law to your authority. Shak.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor. Ex. xxiii. 6.

Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text. South.

The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. Sir W. Scott.

Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. Knight. -- Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.