Synonyms for spanner

Grammar : Noun

Spell : span-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈspæn ər

Définition of spanner

Origin : 1630s, a tool for winding the spring of a wheel-lock firearm, from German Spanner, from spannen (see span (v.)). Meaning "wrench" is from 1790. Figurative phrase spanner in the works attested from 1921 (Wodehouse).

As in monkey wrench : noun adjustable spanner

Example sentences :

You won't wise him up that I threw a spanner into the machinery?
Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

It's the servant man looking for a spanner for your father, Miss Mary.
Extract from : « The Drone » by Rutherford Mayne

He jumped at me unexpected when the spanner hit him, and I fell.
Extract from : « Prescott of Saskatchewan » by Harold Bindloss

If you was to put the spanner on the nuts sometimes you wouldnt get half the trouble.
Extract from : « Life in a Railway Factory » by Alfred Williams

Then he picked up a spanner, and unscrewed something, and—off she went!
Extract from : « Cornish Worthies, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Walter H. Tregellas

What, then, has thrown a spanner into the works, why the crisis?
Extract from : « The Accumulation of Capital » by Rosa Luxemburg

I had t' show ye that no spanner ever bothered Mike Bannock.
Extract from : « The Million Dollar Mystery » by Harold MacGrath

The spanner was twitched from his hand flung across the room.
Extract from : « The Giants From Outer Space » by Geoff St. Reynard

Lying on the plates is the spanner which must have spun from his hand as he fell to destruction.
Extract from : « An Ocean Tramp » by William McFee

There was a saddlebag with spanner and oilcan, but no clue as to the owner.
Extract from : « The Valley of Fear » by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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