Wrist: Definition and part of speech

Wrist

  1. n. A stud or pin which forms a journal; — also called wrist pin.
  2. n. The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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