WREST
Wrest, n.
1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker.
2. Active or moving power. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. Sir W. Scott.
4. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. Knight. — Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.
WRESTER
Wrest"er, n.
Defn: One who wrests.
WRESTLE
Wres"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wrestled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling.]
Etym: [OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr, freq. of wr to wrest; akin to
OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t.]
1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.
2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi. 12.
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold.