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noun

spanner n.

One who, or that which, spans.

The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. (Obs.)

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. (Chiefly British usage)

pl. A contrivance in some of the earlier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... she was not going to be sentimental. "If you mean that you lost the spanner, you don't seem to have suffered much. I think you were asleep when I rode up. But I was surprised to hear you had begun to farm again. Do you like it? And how ...

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— Unspecialist • Murray F. Yaco

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