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spanner::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | wrench |
| Type of | hand tool |
| Has types | adjustable wrench, allen wrench, alligator wrench, box end wrench, box wrench, brace wrench, bulldog wrench, carriage wrench, dog wrench, hook spanner, hook wrench, torque wrench, adjustable spanner, lug wrench, open-end wrench, pin wrench, screw key, socket wrench, sparkplug wrench, tap wrench, tappet wrench |
Examples of spanner
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Then we have one off events like the riots, which throw a spanner in the works.
From the guardian.co.uk
You might be wondering why having children would have put a spanner in the works.
From the eadt.co.uk
Will yet another illegitimate Walker fling one more spanner into the family works?
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Fight back, put a spanner in the works of bureaucracy, stay legal but fight dirty.
From the guardian.co.uk
I just needed a screwdriver, slip-joint pliers, an adjustable spanner and a cloth.
From the guardian.co.uk
The carbon-backed front seats are fixed in place and need a spanner to adjust them.
From the newarkadvertiser.co.uk
Many will feel good about throwing a spanner into Mr Blair's over-tidy works.
From the economist.com
Inevitably, you'd be wrong as a spanner has just been thrown in to the works.
From the hecklerspray.com
That would throw a spanner into the works of its money-spinning advertising machine.
From the economist.com
- Wrench: a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
- Spanner was a British journal on non-market socialism.
- Spanner is a surname.
- (Spanners (album)) Spanners is a music album by IDM artists Black Dog Productions (as The Black Dog) which was released in 1995.
- A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts; One who, or that which, spans; A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket; A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works); A stupid or ...
- Rigid tool for tightening or loosening firehose couplings.
- Is a slang name for someone who is not very intelligent.
- A wrench with fixed jaws [i.e. crescent or box wrench, not monkey wrench]; also, a mild insult for someone who interferes or messes things up
- N. 1. Monkey wrench. 2. adj. A very mild friendly insult. If you've seen Only Fools and Horses, it's the kind of thing Del Boy would say to Rodney. ...
