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▸ verb:  (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
▸ verb:  (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
▸ noun:  The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
▸ noun:  (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Active or motive power.
▸ noun:  A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
▸ noun:  (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set. [A saw set.]

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