wrench

Definitions

• A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
• An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
• (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
• (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
• (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
• (archaic) A winch or windlass.
• (obsolete) A screw.
• A distorting change from the original meaning.
• (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
• (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
• A violent emotional change caused by separation.
• (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
• (obsolete) means; contrivance
• In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.