·noun Active or moving power.
II. Wrest ·vt To tune with a wrest, or key.
III. Wrest ·noun A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
IV. Wrest ·noun A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
V. Wrest ·noun The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
VI. Wrest ·vt To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to Pervert; to Distort.
VII. Wrest ·vt 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.