अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

of Wriggle

One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.

A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.

To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.

To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.

of Wring

One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

of Wring

a. & n. from Wring, v.

A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

of Wringstaff

A winkle.