Definition of wield

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Wield (v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.

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Fustilugs :: Fustilugs (n.) A gross, fat, unwieldy person..
Wieldy :: Wieldy (a.) Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy.
Wield :: Wield (v. t.) To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess..
Wielding :: Wielding (n.) Power; authority; rule.
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct..
Bill :: Bill (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
Sledge :: Sledge (v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer..
Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter..
Crare :: Crare (n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.
Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..
Clumsy :: Clumsy (superl.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse..
Wieldsome :: Wieldsome (a.) Admitting of being easily wielded or managed.
Imperial :: Imperial (a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme..
Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..
Striker :: Striker (n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge..
Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..
Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state..
Weld :: Weld (v. t.) To wield.
Welte :: Welte () imp. of Weld, to wield..
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