wrist

Meanings

Noun

• The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
• A stud or pin which forms a journal.

Verb

• to hit a wrist shot

Origin

• 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, Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną. More at writhe.