Crossword-Solution: SPANNER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spanner | n. | One who, or that which, spans. |
| Spanner | n. | The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. |
| Spanner | n. | An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose. |
| Spanner | n. | A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPANNER | anagram | PANNERS, PARSENN |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SPANNER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Car-spangled __ (crowded bridge?) | 1 answer |
| tools used to tighten or loosen nuts by turning them around a bolt | 1 answer |
| tool for gripping and turning a nut or bolt | 1 answer |
| Wrench, to a Brit | 1 answer |
| Wrench, across the pond | 1 answer |
| Tool to grip a nut | 1 answer |
| Tool for turning nuts. | 1 answer |
| Tool for nuts | 1 answer |
| Nut-turning tool | 1 answer |
| British monkey wrench. | 1 answer |
| Brit's wrench | 1 answer |
| BRITISH wrench | 1 answer |
| Monkey wrench | 2 answers |
| Type of wrench | 5 answers |
| Kind of wrench | 5 answers |
| Wrench | 26 answers |
| Tool. | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPANNER (5)
Again, another spanner fell from a great height, actually tearing off a man's clothes, from his waistcoat to his ankle, but leaving him uninjured.
Then and there he tried it on in the booth, Wat and his boy walking round him with spanner and wrench, fixing bolts and twisting rivets.
They were six, and two carriages would take them: a two-spanner for four, and a one-spanner for two; they could start directly after dinners and get home in time for supper.
They agreed that the human interest was the great thing on a landscape, after all; but they ignored the peasants in the fields and meadows, who were no more to them than the driver on the box, or the people in the two-spanner behind.
She might excuse him." He turned to look back at the two-spanner; it was rather far behind, and he spoke to their driver bidding him go slowly till it caught up with them.
Quotes with SPANNER (2)
Just because he might not know the difference between a spanner and a hammer, didn’t mean a good dose of Heroic kicking wouldn’t solve the same problem.
I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then… and then what? By lunchtime I was so bored that I decided to hang a few pictures. So I found a hammer, and later a man came to replaster the bits of wall I had demolished. Then I tried to fix the electric gates, which work only when there’s an omega in the month. So I went down the drive with a spanner, and later another man came t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1944–2016).