Meaning

• A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.

• An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.

• A trick or artifice.

• Deceit; guile; treachery.

• A turn at an acute angle.

• A winch or windlass.

• A screw.

• A distorting change from the original meaning.

• A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.

• An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.

• A violent emotional change caused by separation.

• In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.

• Means; contrivance

• In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.