0 past simple and past participle of wield --
1 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it: --
She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.
Unlike party support, environmental interest-group pressure can be wielded more broadly on legislators and officials during and between elections.
Power most often is wielded in these accounts by male representatives of the state, of employers, or of the judicial system.
In the absence of such criteria, arguments from 'description versus explanation' can be wielded more or less arbitrarily and as such carry no real force.
Daughters and their spouses also inherited even when sons were available and women appear to have wielded some power in the succession process.
From at least the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect an unease among the millowners about the apparent influence that the jobber wielded.
To a large extent, it was determined by the power and influence that he wielded in the neighbourhood.
No government could afford to ignore the influence democratic politicians and the party press wielded in the public sphere.
In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown.
