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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. 〈主英〉扳手，扳钳 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.
OriginLate 18th century: from German spannen 'draw tight' + -er1. RhymesAlana, 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.
OriginLate 18th century: from German spannen ‘draw tight’ + -er. |