vt means; contrivance.
2. wrench ·vt trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
3. wrench ·vt a violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
4. wrench ·vt a sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
5. wrench ·noun to pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
6. wrench ·noun to strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
7. wrench ·vt 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.
8. wrench ·vt 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.