Synonym of the word SPANNER

n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts; a wrench.
n. (rare) One who, or that which, spans.
n. (weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
n. (obsolete) A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting…
n. (Britain) A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in…
n. (Britain, Ireland, mildly derogatory) A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes,…

n. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
n. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
n. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
n. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
n. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
n. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
n. (obsolete) A screw.
n. A distorting change from the original meaning.
n. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes;…
n. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
n. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
n. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of…
n. (obsolete) means; contrivance.
v. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
v. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
v. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
v. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
v. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
v. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
v. (transitive) To rack with pain.
v. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
v. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.

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