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Definition of spanner in English: spannernoun ˈspanəˈspænər British A tool with a shaped opening or jaws for gripping and turning a nut or bolt. Example sentencesExamples - Max looked up from the spanner he was calibrating with a small tool.
- He collects some other tools, a hammer, nails, spanners, screwdrivers and a few more saw-blades, and slots them into the zippered pouches on his backpack.
- Hand me that number three spanner.
- Ted's spanner has fixed everything in this town, even record players which don't have any nuts or bolts!
- She would be down there with her screwdriver and spanner trying to put the piano together.
- I know one particular man who actually got a rowing boat and went across in his dinner hour and welded spanners, wedges and hammers to the bulk head and rowed back again.
- Unless you have pretty particular interests you're probably not going to have much use for a magnifying glass, a spanner or a miniature jig-saw.
- Avoid the things he needs - like a new spanner or woollen jumper - and impress him with imagination and flair.
- Three young men from Anjanvara wield spanners and engine grease with thinly-veiled pride, mastering a new set of skills.
- If there are any dripping taps then put that spanner that's been lying dormant in the toolbox to work.
- He is friendly with them and once managed to mend a leaking pipe for them with his spanner.
- The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner.
- A spanner clinked on steel and danced in the ringing shed.
- They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner.
- The shop guys had screwed the lug nuts down so hard with their no-sweat pneumatic wrenches that my wimpy spanner and all my strength were useless.
- Even so, their intervention is a big a spanner in the Compaq takeover works.
Origin Late 18th century: from German spannen 'draw tight' + -er1. Rhymes Alana, Anna, bandanna, banner, Branagh, canna, canner, Diana, fanner, Fermanagh, Guyana, Hannah, Havana, hosanna, Indiana, Joanna, lanner, Louisiana, manna, manner, manor, Montana, nana, planner, Pollyanna, Rosanna, savannah, scanner, Susanna, tanner Definition of spanner in US English: spannernounˈspænərˈspanər British A wrench. Example sentencesExamples - The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner.
- If there are any dripping taps then put that spanner that's been lying dormant in the toolbox to work.
- They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner.
- Three young men from Anjanvara wield spanners and engine grease with thinly-veiled pride, mastering a new set of skills.
- Hand me that number three spanner.
- Even so, their intervention is a big a spanner in the Compaq takeover works.
- A spanner clinked on steel and danced in the ringing shed.
- Unless you have pretty particular interests you're probably not going to have much use for a magnifying glass, a spanner or a miniature jig-saw.
- He is friendly with them and once managed to mend a leaking pipe for them with his spanner.
- Ted's spanner has fixed everything in this town, even record players which don't have any nuts or bolts!
- I know one particular man who actually got a rowing boat and went across in his dinner hour and welded spanners, wedges and hammers to the bulk head and rowed back again.
- She would be down there with her screwdriver and spanner trying to put the piano together.
- Max looked up from the spanner he was calibrating with a small tool.
- The shop guys had screwed the lug nuts down so hard with their no-sweat pneumatic wrenches that my wimpy spanner and all my strength were useless.
- He collects some other tools, a hammer, nails, spanners, screwdrivers and a few more saw-blades, and slots them into the zippered pouches on his backpack.
- Avoid the things he needs - like a new spanner or woollen jumper - and impress him with imagination and flair.
Origin Late 18th century: from German spannen ‘draw tight’ + -er. |