To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
Strife, contention, great effort.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To pull or twist violently.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.