simple past tense and past participle of wrest

present participle of wrest

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wrest

(transitive) To pull or twist violently. / (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. / (transitive, figuratively) To seize. / (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. / (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument. / (obsolete) Active or motive power.

(agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

(music) A wooden block in the pianoforte, often made of several pieces, into which the wrest-pins are driven.

Alternative form of wrest block

A saw set.