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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
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Wrest
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
(2):
(n.) Active or moving power.
(3):
(n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
(4):
(v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
(5):
(v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
(6):
(n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
(7):
(n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wrest'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/wrest.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wrest'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/wrest.html. 1828.
