Cryptic crossword clue
Yank in St Paul’s briefly, perhaps? 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WRENCH

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What does WRENCH mean?

1. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
2. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
3. A trick or artifice.
4. Deceit; guile; treachery.
5. A turn at an acute angle.
6. A winch or windlass.
7. A screw.
8. A distorting change from the original meaning.
9. A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
10. An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
11. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
12. In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
13. Means; contrivance
14. In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.

1. To violently move in a turn or writhe.
2. To pull or twist violently.
3. To turn aside or deflect.
4. To slander.
5. To tighten with or as if with a winch.
6. To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
7. To distort from the original meaning.
8. To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
9. To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
10. To rack with pain.
11. To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
12. To use the tool known as a wrench.

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