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Wrest plank

Wrest \Wrest\, n.

  1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
    --Hooker.

  2. Active or moving power. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.