| • | 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. |
| • | To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. |
| • | To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. |
