noun active or moving power.
2. wrest ·vt to tune with a wrest, or key.
3. wrest ·noun a key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
4. wrest ·noun a partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
5. wrest ·noun the act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
6. wrest ·vt to turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
7. wrest ·vt 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.