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Found 2 items, similar to Carriage wrench.
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Definition: carriage wrench carriage wrench n : a wrench designed for use with carriage bolts
English → English (gcide) Definition: Carriage wrench Wrench \Wrench\ (r[e^]nch), n. [OE. wrench deceit, AS. wrenc deceit, a twisting; akin to G. rank intrigue, crookedness, renken to bend, twist, and E. wring. [root]144. See Wring, and cf. Ranch, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] His wily wrenches thou ne mayst not flee. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting. [1913 Webster] He wringeth them such a wrench. --Skelton. [1913 Webster] The injurious effect upon biographic literature of all such wrenches to the truth, is diffused everywhere. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 3. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint. [1913 Webster] 4. Means; contrivance. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 5. 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. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mech.) 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. [1913 Webster] Carriage wrench, a wrench adapted for removing or tightening the nuts that confine the wheels on the axles, or for turning the other nuts or bolts of a carriage or wagon. Monkey wrench. See under Monkey. Wrench hammer, a wrench with the end shaped so as to admit of being used as a hammer. [1913 Webster]
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16:27 Rhizophora Shrubby horsetail unskilled incipient Shrubby horsetail Clericalism F Carica Lance knight Female rhymes Carriage wrench
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