wrest

To obtain or remove by pulling with twisting movements.

To take possession of forcefully; seize or usurp.

To gain or extract with persistent effort; wring.

A small tuning key for the wrest pins of a stringed instrument.

The mold-board of a plow: originally its front portion. See turn-wrest plow (under plow).

To twist or turn; especially, to deflect, as from the existing or normal state, character, course, or significance: now used chiefly of immaterial things.

To remove, obtain, or bring by or as if by twisting or wringing; extract or pluck with. much effort; wring; wrench.

To wrestle; contend; strive.

l A twist; a writhing.

A tortuous action; distortion; perversion; hence, a ruse; a stratagem. Compare wrench, n., 1.