spanners

Meaning of spanners

noun
  1. A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts; a wrench.
    Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more nut to screw in.
  2. One who, or that which, spans.
  3. A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
  4. A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
  5. A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)
  6. (mildly) A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.

Information about spanners

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of spanners is: spanner.
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Hyphenation of spanners

span-ners

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • spanners is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

spanners synonyms

Meaning :

wrench

Words that rhyme with spanners

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