Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete variant of
wrench .
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Examples
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"Well, I'm not after saying it was not a wrinch at firrst, but I considered it best to lave Wall Street -- Wall Street, ye understand, before ----"
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An 'Abraham Lincoln Wirt, yo' fetch a pail o 'water, an' wrinch out the worsh dish, an 'set a piece o' soap by, an '
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Billy was so clever that when he did get to school he would learn faster than other boys; and she added that his departure from home would be "a dreadful wrinch for Mrs. Dale."
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That hero sthud f'r four hours in th 'dureway, ar-rmed on'y with a monkey-wrinch, an' built a wall iv invaders in frint iv him till th 'judges cud dig their way out through th' cellar, an 'escape to th' polis station.
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Well, they carried th 'corpse to th' side, an 'took th' ball out iv his stomach with a monkey wrinch, an 'th' game was ray-shumed.
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Th 'nex' day Mack is seen mendin 'a rustic chair with a monkey wrinch, Bryan has a pitcher took in th' act iv puttin 'on a shirt marked with th' union label, an 'they'se another photygraph iv Mack carryin' a scuttle iv coal up th 'cellar stairs.
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Well, they carried th 'corpse to th' side, an 'took th' ball out iv his stomach with a monkey wrinch, an 'th' game was rayshumed.
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"You struck the gintleman on the head with the wrinch, and I'll have you in the Tombs."
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At length, with a wrinch, I bust it open, an 'thar before me, all in bright specie, lay fifty dollars!
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Yet feem'd ftie not to wrinch, though fhrewdly But thus her pafliive characfters msintain'd.
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