A valve with a disk-shaped mechanism which can be used for isolating or regulating flow.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To pull or twist violently.