Vocabulary : Wreke to Wrestle

Wreke : Alt. of Wreeke
Wren : Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae. ;; Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
Wrench : Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. ;; A violent twist, or a pull with twisting. ;; A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint. ;; Means; contrivance. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. ;; To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
Wrenched : of Wrench
Wrenching : of Wrench

Wrest : 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. ;; To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort. ;; To tune with a wrest, or key. ;; The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. ;; Active or moving power. ;; A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. ;; A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Wrested : of Wrest
Wrester : One who wrests.
Wresting : of Wrest
Wrestle : To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. ;; Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. ;; To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. ;; A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

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