Wrist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The joint between the hand and the forearm.
  • n. See carpus.
  • n. The part of a sleeve or glove that encircles the wrist.
  • v. To shoot (a puck) by making a wrist shot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in narrow sense.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
  • n. A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That part of the fore limb or arm which comes between the forearm and the hand, and by which the latter is joined or jointed to the former; the wrist-joint; technically, the carpus, or the carpal articulation.
  • n. The ankle or the instep.
  • n. In machinery, a stud or pin projecting from the side of a crank, wheel, or other moving part, and forming a means of attachment to a connecting-rod leading to some other part of the mechanism. Also called wrist-pin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
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    carpus    wrist pin   
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    carpus   
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    Liszt    assist    cist    coexist    consist    cyst    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist   
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    ankle    neck    thigh    throat    forearm    knee    elbow    waist    finger    limb