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wrench
English
Alternative forms
- (15th century): wrenche; (15th century): wrinche; (16th century): wringe
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?nch IPA(key): /??nt????/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wrench, from Old English wren?, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz (“a turning, twisting”). Compare German Rank (“plot, intrigue”).
Noun
wrench (plural wrenches)
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. [from 16th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A trick or artifice. [from 8th c.]
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench.
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery. [from 13th c.]
- (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle. [from 16th c.]
- (archaic) A winch or windlass. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A screw. [from 16th c.]
- A distorting change from the original meaning. [from 17th c.]
- (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. [from 18th c.]
- (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation. [from 19th c.]
- (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. [from 19th c.]
- (obsolete) means; contrivance
- But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace
- 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.
Synonyms
- (tool): spanner (UK, Australia)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wren?an, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijan?. Compare German renken.
Verb
wrench (third-person singular simple present wrenches, present participle wrenching, simple past and past participle wrenched)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To slander. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To distort from the original meaning. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To rack with pain. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench. [from 19th c.]
Translations
Further reading
- wrench on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wrench on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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lug
English
Etymology
Probably from Old Norse (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which is from similar Scandinavian sources.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: l?g, IPA(key): /l??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
lug (plural lugs)
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ascham to this entry?)
- A lug nut.
- Synonym: lug nut
- (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A fool, a large man.
- Synonym: big lug
- (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (Britain, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- (Britain, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16 1?2 feet.
- Synonym: rod
- (nautical) A lugsail.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- A lugworm.
Derived terms
- (protruding support): launch lug
Translations
Verb
lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
- c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, A Thought
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
Derived terms
- luggage
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]
Anagrams
- Gul
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lucht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœ?/
Noun
lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)
- air
Usage notes
The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *lug(?), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian li?gas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German sl?ch (“gulf, abyss”).
Noun
lug m (indefinite plural lugje, definite singular lugu, definite plural lugjet)
- trough, (water) channel, spillway
- groove (especially in trees)
- valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)
- (mechanics) lug
Declension
Derived terms
- lug seoil (“lugsail”)
Further reading
- "lug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Livonian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish luku.
Noun
lug
- number
Primitive Irish
Romanization
lug
- Romanization of ???
Scanian
Etymology
From Old Norse lok.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l????]
Noun
lug n
- weed, unwanted plant
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *l?g?.
Noun
l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- small forest, grove
- Synonyms: šumica, gaj
- swamp forest
Declension
Further reading
- “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Etymology 2
From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").
Noun
l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- ash (fire residue)
- lye
Declension
Further reading
- “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Slovene
Etymology
From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lù?k/, /lú?k/
Noun
l?g m inan
- lye
Inflection
Further reading
- “lug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Somali
Noun
lug ?
- leg
Yola
Noun
lug
- Alternative form of lhug
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