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wrest
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?st, IPA(key): /??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: rest
Etymology 1
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wr?stan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijan?, (compare Proto-Germanic *wr?han? (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Verb
wrest (third-person singular simple present wrests, present participle wresting, simple past and past participle wrested)
- (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.
- (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Derived terms
- outwrest
- overwrest
- wrester
Related terms
- wrestle
Translations
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- (obsolete) Active or motive power.
- (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
Derived terms
- saw wrest
- wrest block
- wrest pin
- wrest plank
Etymology 2
Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wr?þan? (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wrei?-, *wrey?- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Etymology 3
A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).
Noun
wrest (plural wrests)
- (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.
Derived terms
- turnwrest
References
Anagrams
- Trews, strew, trews, werst
Middle English
Noun
wrest
- Alternative form of wrist
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drest
English
Verb
drest
- Obsolete form of dressed; simple past tense and past participle of dress
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
Anagrams
- RTSed
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