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▪ I. wrenching, vbl. n.|ˈrɛn(t)ʃɪŋ|
[f. wrench v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses; an instance of this.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxviii. (Addit. MS.), Þe hond is greued..by wrastinge and wrenching of ioyntes. c1430Lanfranc's Cirurg. 5 (Addit. MS.), Þe secunde techynge a comyn word off wrenchynges out of Ioynte. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 145 An other maketh a wrynchinge with hys backe. 1580Blundevil Horsemanship 51 b, Of the wrinching of the shoulder. 1674Barbette's Chirurg. (ed. 2) 17 Sometimes the Bone is..forced out of its place..but a little, or half, which is called Sub-luxation, or Wrenching. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxii. 338 By the Twisting (or Renching) of the Wheels. 1821Byron Two Foscari i. i. 160 My curdling limbs Quiver with the anticipated wrenching. 1861Dickens All Year Round 13 July 365 The sudden wrenching of him out of our boat. 1884E. Yates Recoll. I. 159 The charioteers..declined to submit them to the unavoidable twists and wrenchings.
fig.1555Latimer in Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1724/2 Their racking, writhing, wrinching, and monstrously iniuryng of Gods holy scripture. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus Cc iij, Whose loue hath eased the wrenching of my heart. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 391 No tyranny being equal to the wrenching of law for penal purposes.
b. spec. The action of rectifying a deformed foot, esp. by a foot-wrench.
1896Tubby Deformities 415 Wrenching..may be effected more especially in this degree by manual force, and in the severer degrees by special apparatus. Ibid., When wrenching is carried out with the hands.
c. N.Z. = root-pruning s.v. root n.1 23.
1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 55/1 Toward the end of August root crops..tend to run to seed. This growth can be retarded considerably by wrenching..pushing a fork or spade into the soil..and..levering the roots up slightly. This breaks the extreme end of the taproot.
†2. A griping pain in the bowels. Obs.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 124 Vexed much with wrinching and griping in the bowels. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 442 The wringings and wrinchings..in the guts or belly of a man or woman.
3. attrib. in wrenching-iron.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 22 Giue me that Mattocke, & the wrenching Iron. 1769Public Advertiser 6 June 3/2 The Thieves left behind them a Wrenching Iron, about two Feet long.
▪ II. ˈwrenching, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That wrenches or twists; of the nature of a wrench. Also fig.
1618T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ii. xxv. 315 Yet we haue still gone forward, and could not bee pull'd backe by any wrenching arme whatsoeuer. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. vii. 99 The stem must be..strengthened to resist the wrenching stresses. 1889Gunter That Frenchman xix. 248 He..gives this wrist..a wrenching twist. 1894T. Pinkerton Blizzard 105 The thought..gave him a wrenching pang.
Hence ˈwrenchingly adv.
1884L. Macbean tr. Buchanan's Spir. Songs 28 He was stripped and wrenchingly Stretched out with cruel strain. |