wrist
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wrist/rɪst/
▶noun
- 1 the joint connecting the hand with the forearm.
■ the equivalent joint (the carpal joint) in the foreleg of a quadruped or the wing of a bird.
- 2 (also wrist pin) (in a machine) a stud projecting from a crank as an attachment for a connecting rod.
'wrist' also found in these Oxford entries:
bracelet
- bracer
- carpus
- Colles' fracture
- forearm
- gauntlet
- hand
- heel
- kara
- lanyard
- leg-of-mutton sleeve
- lunate
- metacarpus
- navicular
- palm
- pisiform
- slap
- slung shot
- sprain
- sword knot
- tenosynovitis
- triquetral
- unciform
- watch
- wrest
- wristband
- wrist-drop
- wristlet
- wristwatch
- wristy
