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Definition of Wrench
Pronunciation: rĕnch | n. | 1. | | | 1. | Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. | | 2. | A violent twist, or a pull with twisting. | | 3. | A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint. | | 4. | Means; contrivance. | | 5. | 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. | | 6. | (Mech.) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | | | 1. | To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. | | 2. | To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. |
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