The joint between the human hand and forearm, That part of the fore limb or arm which comes between the forearm and the hand, and by which the latter is joined or jointed to the former; the wrist-joint; technically, the carpus, or the carpal articulation, anatomy The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in narrow sense, transitive verb_ To shoot (a puck) by making a wrist shot