wrest

wrest englannista suomeksi

1. kiskaista, kaapata

1. riistää

1. Substantiivi

wrest englanniksi

1. To pull or twist violently.

2. To obtain by pulling or violent force.

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3. (RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)&93; firſt betray me, and reveal / The ſecret wreſted from me in her highth / Of Nuptial Love proteſt, carrying it ſtrait / To them who had corrupted her, my Spies, / And Rivals?

4. (quote-book)

5. (quote-book) Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2015|page=103|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=N9gNBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|isbn=978-1-4696-2103-6|passage=Despite this short shrift from descendants and historians, the Jewish peddler was a valued person in rural life. Besides bringing much-needed goods and a break for those exhausted from plowing or laboriously wresting turpentine from pine trees, the visiting peddler was often respected by those God-fearing southerners for what they believed was his direct connection to the Old Testament stories they revered.

6. To seize.

7. (quote-journal), M.A. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1841.|magazine=Review|The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes; for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London; and & C Black|Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh|month=October|year=1841|volume=LXXIV|issue=CXLIX|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=13FOAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA186|oclc=950902861|passage=But the arrival of the new members of council from England, naturally had the effect of uniting the old servants of the India Company|East India Company. Clavering (British Army officer)|John Clavering, Henry Monson|George Henry Monson, and Francis (politician)|Philip Francis formed the majority. They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings|Warren Hastings; ...

8. (RQ:Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes)

9. To distort, to pervert, to twist.

10. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Q1)

11. (RQ:King James Version)

12. To tune with a wrest, or key.

13. (quote-book)|chapter=In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng VII of England|Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.|mainauthor=John Skelton|editor=Stow|John Stow|title=Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate|location=Imprinted at London: In Street|Fletestreate, neare vnto Dunstan-in-the-West|St Dunstan-in-the-West by Thomas Marshe|month=July|year=1503|year_published=1568|oclc=54747393|title2=Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth|location2=London|publisher2=Printed for C. Davis in Row|Pater-noster Row|year2=1736|page2=290|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ry8JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290|oclc2=731569711|passage=''The Harpe.'' A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye

14. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

15. A key to tune a instrument.

16. (quote-book)|chapter=In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng VII of England|Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.|mainauthor=John Skelton|editor=Stow|John Stow|title=Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate|location=Imprinted at London: In Street|Fletestreate, neare vnto Dunston-in-the-West|Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe|month=July|year=1503|year_published=1568|oclc=54747393|title2=Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth|location2=London|publisher2=Printed for C. Davis in Row|Pater-noster Row|year2=1736|page2=290|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ry8JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290|oclc2=731569711|passage=''The Harpe.'' (..) A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

17. (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe) wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the ''wrest'', or key, with which he tuned his harp.

18. Active or motive power.

19. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

20. (short for); a set.

21. A partition in a wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

22. (quote-book) The partitions, which determine the form of the buckets, conſiſt of three different planes or boards AB, BC, CD, which are variouſly named by different artiſts. We have heard them named the (smallcaps) or (smallcaps), the (smallcaps), and the (smallcaps) (probably for wriſt, on account of a reſemblance of the whole line to a human arm); (..)

23. A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

24. (quote-book), the word ''rest'' is used.

25. (alternative form of)