wrest /rest/

1. To turn, twist, or (obsolete) screw
2. To twist, extract or take away, by force or unlawfully
3. To get by toil (eg a living from an unpromising environment)
4. To twist from truth or natural meaning, to distort
5. To misinterpret
6. To pervert
7. To derive improperly (Spenser)
8. To sprain (Scot)

To force a way

1. The act of wresting
2. Violent pulling and twisting
3. Distortion
4. A wrench-like key for tuning a piano, etc (archaic)

wrestˈer noun

wrest block or wrest plank noun

(in a piano, etc) the board fitted with the wrest pins

wrest pin noun

A pin round which the end of a wire (eg a piano wire) is wound, turned by the wrest

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