Noun: spanner
| Singular | spanner |
| Plural | spanners |
Sample Sentences
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Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in.
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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. [2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, quoting Amanda Askell, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool.
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The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones... [1915, Florence Kiper Frank, The Jew to Jesus: and other poems:]
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The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, Fig. 10., page xvi:]
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Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.
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You spanner, Rodney! I wanted some time, not a bunch of thyme!
Nouns inflected like spanner
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *spannō
4. Old English spann
5. Middle English spanne
6. English span
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
8. Proto-Italic *-āzios
9. Latin -āriusnom.
10. Latin -āriusbor.
11. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
12. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
13. Old English -ere
14. Middle English -ere
15. English -er
16. English spanner
17. From span + -er.
Verbs referencing "spanner"
Zulu Nouns
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