wrencher
(ˈrɛn(t)ʃə(r))
[f. wrench v. + -er1.]
1. A machine or instrument for wrenching or wringing. rare.
| 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. l. 892 Sourysshe thynges..bere downe the meete as it were a pressour other a wrencher [MSS. wrynge]. 1832 S. 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.
| 1847 in Home Life Sir D. Brewster (1869) 190 [Thou wert] The pillar of thine own beloved fane; The wrencher of its chill and crushing chain. 1863 Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 415 The wrencher of a civil institution to his own individual aggrandisement. |