From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2018]
*** Pronunciation
- [rĕst] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en],[1] from [en], (compare [gem-pro],
[gem-pro], [non]), from a derivative of [en], [ine-pro], [ine-pro]. _See
also_ [en], [en].
The noun is derived from the verb.[2]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To pull or twist violently .
2. [en] To obtain by pulling or violent force .
3. * [book=Samson Agonistes]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] To seize .
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [chapter=Man’s Reason]
10. [en] To distort , to pervert , to twist.
11. * [act=IV]
12. * [Exodus]
13. * [en]
14. * [en]
15. [en] To tune with a wrest, or key .
16. * [en]
***** Usage notes
In modern usage, almost always followed with a preposition such as "from,"
"away from," or "out of."
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Related terms
- [en]
***** Translations
[to pull or twist violently]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
[to obtain by pulling or violent force]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to seize] [to distort, pervert, twist]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The act of wresting ; a wrench or twist ; distortion .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A key to tune a stringed instrument .
4. * [en]
5. * [volume=III]
6. [en] Active or motive power .
7. * [year=1590]
8. [en] [en] ; a saw set .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
[[File:Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and
miscellaneous literature (1810) (vol 20, plate DLXXIII, fig 6).jpg|thumb|A
diagram of a water wheel.[3] The part marked “CD” represents the wrest, a
board forming part of one of the buckets of the wheel]]
Possibly a variant of [en]: see the quotation. _Wrist_ is also derived from
[gem-pro], from a derivative of [en], [ine-pro], [ine-pro].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
2. * [en]
*** Etymology 3
A misspelling of [en], probably influenced by _wrest (etymology 1, verb and
noun)_.[4]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A metal (formerly wooden ) piece of some ploughs attach ed under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow ) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=wresten]
[2]. [entry=Wrest, _sb._ [1]]
[3]. From [entry=WATER-Works] .
[4]. [entry=Wrest, _sb._ [2]]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]