Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WRENCH

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Definitions of WRENCH

1. 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.
2. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. [from 16th c.]
3. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]
4. (obsolete) A trick or artifice. [from 8th c.]
5. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery. [from 13th c.]
6. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle. [from 16th c.]
7. (archaic) A winch or windlass. [from 16th c.]
8. (obsolete) A screw. [from 16th c.]
9. A distorting change from the original meaning. [from 17th c.]
10. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. [from 18th c.]
11. (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
12. A violent emotional change caused by separation. [from 19th c.]
13. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. [from 19th c.]
14. (obsolete) means; contrivance
15. (transitive) To pull or twist violently. [from 13th c.]
16. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. [from 16th c.]
17. (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent. [from 16th c.]
18. (transitive) To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed. [from 18th c.]
19. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. [from 18th c.]
20. (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench. [from 19th c.]
21. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe. [11th-18th c.]
22. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch. [16th-19th c.]
23. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. [16th c.]
24. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. [18th c.]
25. A nicknames surname from nicknames.

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