·vt Means; contrivance.
II. Wrench ·vt Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
III. Wrench ·vt A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
IV. Wrench ·vt A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
V. Wrench ·noun To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
VI. Wrench ·noun To Strain; to Sprain; hence, to distort; to Pervert.
VII. Wrench ·vt 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.
VIII. Wrench ·vt 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.