Spanner
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:12 pts7 letters
Definition of Spanner
Noun
- A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
"Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in."
- Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.
"The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool."
- One who, or that which, spans.
- A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
- A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
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