spanner
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Is spanner a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.Examples: "Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in."Synonyms: wrenchCommonwealthIrelandUK
2. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.Examples: "The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool."Synonyms: wrenchCanadaCommonwealthIrelandUKUS
3. (rare) One who, or that which, spans.Examples: "The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones..."rare
4. (graph theory) A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
5. (weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.Examples: "The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock."
6. (obsolete) A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary