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Spanner   /spˈænər/   Listen
noun
spanner  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, spans.
2.
The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. (Obs.)
3.
An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose. (Chiefly British usage)
4.
pl. A contrivance in some of the earlier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.





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"Spanner" Quotes from Famous Books



... charge of murder. I'd be hanged first! I met her the very day after we were in the Abbey together—she was walking with some idiot of an airman—and she stared straight in my face and cut me. I've done with girls! They're all of them alike!" and the gloomy young misanthrope picked up the spanner and began energetically tightening nuts ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... Jack said. "I think not. Now set to work, John; give me a spanner, and let's get the pipe ...
— Facing Death - The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines • G. A. Henty


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