wrist
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of wrist
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
“With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.”
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noun
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The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
“With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.”
- A stud or pin which forms a journal.
verb
- To hit a wrist shot.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.
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