Bible Dictionaries
Wrest

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wrest'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/wrest.html. 1828.