These are the meanings of the letters RETSW when you unscramble them.
- Strew (v. t.)
To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
- Strew (v. t.)
To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
- Strew (v. t.)
To spread abroad; to disseminate.
- Trews (n. pl.)
Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.
- Wrest (n.)
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
- Wrest (n.)
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
- Wrest (n.)
Active or moving power.
- Wrest (n.)
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
- Wrest (v. t.)
To tune with a wrest, or key.
- Wrest (v. t.)
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
- Wrest (v. t.)
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.