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wrencher|ˈrɛn(t)ʃə(r)|
[f. wrench v. + -er1.]
1. A machine or instrument for wrenching or wringing. rare.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. l. 892 Sourysshe thynges..bere downe the meete as it were a pressour other a wrencher [MSS. wrynge]. 1832S. Warren Diary Late Physician I. 380 Before proceeding to use our screws, or wrenchers, we once more looked and listened.
2. One who or that which wrenches or twists. Also fig.
1847in Home Life Sir D. Brewster (1869) 190 [Thou wert] The pillar of thine own beloved fane; The wrencher of its chill and crushing chain. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 415 The wrencher of a civil institution to his own individual aggrandisement. |