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v. t. To wrest or force from the natural or proper position. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To subdue by wrestling. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saw-set. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. (b) Designating a kind of hillside plow. [ Eng. ] Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wrested; p. pr. & vb. n. Wresting. ] [ OE. wresten, AS. wr&unr_;stan; akin to wr&unr_;&unr_; a twisted band, and wrī&unr_;n to twist. See Writhe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. “The secret wrested from me.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our country's cause,
That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrest once the law to your authority. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor. Ex. xxiii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tune with a wrest, or key. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Active or moving power. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. [ 1913 Webster ]

The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. Knight. --
Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wrests. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wrestled p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling ] [ OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr&unr_;stlian, freq. of wr&unr_;stan to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. wr&aemacr_;stlere. ] One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]