The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrest plank
Wrest \Wrest\, n.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
--Hooker.Active or moving power. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp.
--Sir W. Scott. -
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano.
--Knight.Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.