Wrench(v. t.)
- An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
Wrench(v. t.)
- The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
Wrench(n.)
- To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
Wrench(n.)
- To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.