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v. t.
An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
superl.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
n.
The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
n.
One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
v. t.
A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
v. t.
An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
n.
The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
n.
The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.
n. pl.
An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
a.
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
n.
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
a.
Seizing; embracing; catching.
n.
A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
n.
A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.
v. i.
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
n.
A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
n.
The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.
v. t.
To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.
n.
Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
a.
Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
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