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Definition of Wrest plank

Wrest plank
Wrest Wrest, n. 1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. --Hooker. 2. Active or moving power. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. --Sir W. Scott. 4. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. --Knight. Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.

Meaning of Wrest plank from wikipedia

- all the way through their supporting wrest plank. Thus, the tuning hammer is used on the top side of the wrest plank, but the strings are wrapped around...
- worked ****iduously to develop and refine the instrument, moving the wrest plank of the earlier pianoforte, which had sat to the side of the case as in...
- instruments in that they have a re-tuning mechanism placed in the upper wrest plank of the instrument. 'Concert' Kyiv-style banduras were first manufactured...
- each side of it; the date was found either on the soundboard or the wrest plank. Ruckers instruments have always been valued for the beauty of their...
- grand pianos caused by the structural gap between the sounding board and wrest plank allowing the hammers to strike the strings; the solution of placing actions...
- Silbermann also copied another ingenious Cristofori invention, the inverted wrest plank. In other respects (case construction, choice of wood species, string...
- piece iron frames combined with wrest plank bridges and damper guides in square pianos, and with m****ive wrest plank terminations in grands; Chickering...
- frame to hold the tuning pins instead of a single structural wooden wrest plank bolted to the frameā€”and iron frame squares almost entirely lacking wood...
- behind this the felt ledge struck by the fist. Two belly bridges and two wrest-plank bridges, one set for each octave, determine the vibrating length of the...
- reform the peacetime army with the support of his father. He wished to wrest control over promotions from the government to the army itself and to limit...