adjustable spanner

English

Noun

adjustable spanner (plural adjustable spanners)

  2. (British) An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.[1]
    Synonyms: adjustable wrench (especially North America); adjustable; shifting spanner, shifter (especially Australia)
    Hypernyms: spanner, wrench < hand tool < tool
    Hyponyms: Crescent wrench, crescent wrench (especially North America); crescent spanner (especially New Zealand), monkey wrench
    1. (often specifically) The open-end type of such a tool with a worm-drive thumbwheel.
      Synonyms: Crescent wrench, crescent wrench (especially North America); crescent spanner (especially New Zealand)
      Hypernyms: spanner, wrench < hand tool < tool
      Coordinate term: monkey wrench

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References

  1. ^ Geesin, Ron (2015), The Adjustable Spanner: History, Origins and Development to 1970, Crowood Press, →ISBN
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