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Not to be depended on; weak; unstable. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off. [Cant]

oth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. The chambers and the stables weren wyde. Chaucer. Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. Matt. vii. 18.

One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc. Knight.

strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.

Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.