wrist

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But Gilbert's great strokes flashed like lightnings from his pliant wrist, and behind the wrist was the Norman arm, and behind the arm the relentless pale face and the even lips, that just tightened upon each other as the deathblows went out, one by one, each to its place in a life.

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  1. noun The joint between the hand and the forearm.
  2. noun See carpus.
  3. noun The part of a sleeve or glove that encircles the wrist.
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  • And on his wrist was the oversized watch Carefully, he circled the block. —  077 - Merchants of Disaster
  • On his wrist is a platinum Patek Philippe; on his sockless feet, Italian loafers. —  Beach Road
  • Encircling the wrist was a band of metal to which was fastened a length of steel chain. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • "On his wrist is an identification tag asking that you be called if anything should happen to him What is the number on the back of the tag?" —  022 - The Annihilist
  • Hidden among the bangles on her wrist was a bracelet of ensorcelled bees. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also wreast, wrest; from Middle English wrist, wriste, also wirste, wyrste, from Anglo-Saxon wrist (usually in comp. hand-wrist) = OFries. wriust, riust, wirst, werst (hond-wriust, ‘hand-wrist,’ fot-wriust, ‘foot-wrist,’ instep) = Low German wrist = Middle High German rist, riste, German rist (German dial. frist), hand-or foot-joint; cf. German wider-rist, withers of a horse (see withers), = Icelandic rist = Swedish Danish vrist, instep; with formative -t (-tht later -st), from wrīthan, twist, writhe: see writhe, and cf. wrest.
 

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