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Wringbolt to Wronghead
Wringbolt
(Wring"bolt`), n. (Shipbuilding) 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.
Wringer
(Wring"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
2. A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
Wringing
(Wring"ing), a. & n. from Wring, v.
Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
Wringstaff
(Wring"staff`) n.; pl. Wringstaves (Shipbuilding) A strong piece of plank used in applying
wringbolts.
Wrinkle
(Wrin"kle) n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
Wrinkle
(Wrin"kle), n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw.
rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. .]
1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a
corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows."
Shak.
Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson. 2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden. 3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or
fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
Wrinkle
(Wrin"kle), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling ]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle
the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. Milton.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant. To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] Marston.
Wrinkle
(Wrin"kle), v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Wrinkly
(Wrin"kly) a. Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot.
His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle. Wrist
(Wrist) n. [OE. wriste, wrist, AS. wrist; akin to OFries. wriust, LG. wrist, G. rist wrist, instep,
Icel. rist instep, Dan. & Sw. vrist, and perhaps to E. writhe.]
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