What is the meaning of Wrest?

To pull or twist violently.

To obtain by pulling or violent force.

To seize.

To distort, to pervert, to twist.

To tune with a wrest, or key.

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

A key to tune a stringed instrument.

Active or motive power.

Short for saw wrest (a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf); a saw set.

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

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.

Alternative form of wrist

Source: wiktionary.org