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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. |
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A violent twist, or a pull with twisting. |
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A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint. |
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Means; contrivance. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by
violence. |
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To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. |
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