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What is a torse?

What is a torse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (heraldry) A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on.
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The torse occasionally figures as a charge, for example, in the arms of Jocelyn and Joslin.
In Torse 3, I was stretching my linguistic limbs in opposite directions as far as I could, toward the mythic and the momentary.
The crest, a sinister arm in armour, grasping a broken lance, on a torse of the colours.
The field hypersurfaces of torse forming vector fields are ruled hypersurfaces.
The crest issues from a coronet or, which is placed upon a torse argent and sable.
On a helmet and torse, issuing out of a cloud argent, a sinister arm proper, holding a salt as the former.

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