Usually means: Tool for gripping, turning nuts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrench: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wrench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wrench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wrench: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wrench: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wrench, wrench: Wordnik
  7. wrench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wrench: Wiktionary
  9. wrench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wrench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wrench: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wrench: Dictionary.com
  13. wrench (n.), wrench (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wrench: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wrench, Wrench (disambiguation), Wrench (screw theory), Wrench: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wrench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wrench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wrench: Rhymezone
  19. Wrench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wrench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wrench: Free Dictionary
  22. wrench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Wrench, wrench: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wrench: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. wrench: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrench: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrench: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Wrench, wrench: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Wrench: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
noun:  An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
noun:  (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
noun:  (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
noun:  (archaic) A winch or windlass.
noun:  (obsolete) A screw.
noun:  A distorting change from the original meaning.
noun:  (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
noun:  (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
noun:  A violent emotional change caused by separation.
noun:  (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
noun:  (obsolete) means; contrivance
noun:  In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
verb:  (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
verb:  (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
verb:  (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
verb:  (transitive) To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
verb:  (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
verb:  (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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