Wrist
/ɹɪst/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones wordnet
- 3 A stud or pin which forms a journal.
Verb
- 1 To hit a wrist shot.
Example
More examples"The man caught the girl by the wrist."
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.