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Monkey-wrench   /mˈəŋki-rɛntʃ/   Listen
Monkey-wrench

noun
1.
Adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw.  Synonym: monkey wrench.






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"Monkey-wrench" Quotes from Famous Books



... crisp morning air has been productive of a surplus amount of animal spirits, and I feel like doing something funny; so I volunteer to cure his " sick foot" by sundry dark and mysterious manoeuvres, that I unbiushingly intimate are "heap good medicine." With owlish solemnity my small monkey-wrench is taken from the tool-bag and waved around the " sick foot" a few times, and the operation is completed by squirting a few drops from my oil-can through a hole in the blanket. Before going I give him to understand ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... pair eyes (with glasses), one pair eyes (plain), one Roman nose, one Grecian nose, one turn-up nose, one set whiskers (full), one moustache, one pair side-whiskers, one chin, one set large ears, one set medium ears, one set small ears, one set shoulders, with collar and necktie for above, one monkey-wrench, one set quoins, one galley, one oil can, one screwdriver. These different features are then arranged so that a great variety of clergymen, murderers, senators, embezzlers, artists, dynamiters, humorists, arsonists, larcenists, poets, statesmen, base ball players, rinkists, pianists, ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Monkey-wrench" :   adjustable spanner, monkey wrench, adjustable wrench



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