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▸ 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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pipe wrench,
monkey wrench,
crescent wrench,
socket wrench,
box-end wrench,
open-end wrench,
ratcheting wrench,
adjustable wrench,
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