meaning of wrench
1. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
2. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
3. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
4. Means; contrivance.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
8. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
9. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
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