The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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.
obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
"wrest the knife from his hands"
"wrest a meaning from the old text"
"wrest power from the old government"
To pull or twist violently.