spanner

UK /ˈspæn.ə/ US /ˈspæn.ə/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in.

Tools don’t have judgment or ethics, and they might fail to push back on bad ideas or dangerous requests. “Your spanner’s never like, ‘This shouldn’t be built,’” she said, using a British term for wrench.

2

A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool.

3

One who, or that which, spans.

The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones...

4

A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.

5

A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.

The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock.

verb

1

To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner

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