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To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence;
to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. |
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To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper
use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort. |
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To tune with a wrest, or key. |
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The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence,
distortion; perversion. |
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Active or moving power. |
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A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. |
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A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the
buckets is determined. |