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[ Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons (Child's Bal 3. In mach., 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. - Bridle wrist, in the manège, the wrist of the horseman's left hand. Compare briale -hand. - Twist of the wrist. See twist. - Wrist touch, in pianoforte - playing, a stroke or touch which proceeds from the wrist rather than from the fingers alone or from the whole forearm. wristband (rist'band, colloq. riz'band), n. That band or part of a sleeve, especially of a shirt-sleeve, which covers the wrist. The wrist bands sewed on to shirt-sleeves were formerly continued with a flare over the upper part of the hand, serving the purpose of the separate stiff cuffs buttoned to the narrow wristbands now in use. In the times of more elaborate dre ing such wristbands were often very long, and adorned with rich lace or fine embroidery. He wrist -bands. With that the hands to pocket went, Full wristband deep. Vanbrugh, Æsop, ii. 1. wore very stiff collars, and prodigiously long Dickens , A Rogue's Life, i. ( Household Words.) wrist-bone (rist'bon), n. Any bone of the wrist or carpus; a carpal bone. See carpus , wrist , and cuts under hand , pisiform , and scapholunar . wrist-clonus (rist'klo"nus), n . A series of jerky movements of the hand produced in certain nervous diseases by a sudden forcible bending back of the wrist.