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Spanner   /spˈænər/   Listen
Spanner

noun
1.
A hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt.  Synonym: wrench.



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"Spanner" Quotes from Famous Books



... behind a bulkhead door at one end of the control room. I listened, and again the sound was repeated. With the lighter still flickering in my hands, I got to my feet. The bulkhead door was jammed, but I found a heavy telargeium spanner-wrench on the floor, and with a strength which frightened me—a strength which could have come only by some upset condition of gravitation—I soon crashed the door open. I had no sooner done it, however, than I forgot about the moan which had ...
— The Winged Men of Orcon - A Complete Novelette • David R. Sparks

... the armorer's and there he bought that very suit for which he had yearned so short a time before. Then and there he tried it on in the booth, Wat and his boy walking round him with spanner and wrench, fixing bolts and ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... bit, Jim," replied Terry, working away like a madman with spanner and screw-wrench; "if I can but loosen this nut I can disconnect this bent rod and replace it in ...
— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood



Words linked to "Spanner" :   tappet wrench, brace wrench, alligator wrench, open-end wrench, carriage wrench, bulldog wrench, screw key, hook wrench, torque wrench, pin wrench, sparkplug wrench, lug wrench, dog wrench, tap wrench, Allen wrench, box end wrench, wrench, box wrench, socket wrench, hand tool, adjustable wrench, jaw



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