wrist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones

3. 3
   noun

   A stud or pin which forms a journal.

4. 4
   verb

   To hit a wrist shot.

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.