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(Britain) An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
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(US) Synonym of adjustable spanner
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A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
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(dated, chiefly 1900s-1920s) Any small and handy wrench as might be well suited for repairing bicycles, but not limited to bicycle use.
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An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.
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(engineering) A wrench-like device used to tighten or loosen a chuck.
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(Australia, New Zealand) An adjustable hand tool for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
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(US) A traditional double-ended bicycle wrench with a selection of usually 10 sizes—five on each end—arranged in a ball form.
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Alternative form of flare-nut wrench [(engineering) An open spanner (wrench) to tighten fragile nuts, such as flare nuts, not accessible to a ring spanner (box end wrench) or box spanner (tube spanner).]
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(engineering) An open spanner (wrench) to tighten fragile nuts, such as flare nuts, not accessible to a ring spanner (box end wrench) or box spanner (tube spanner).
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A screwdriver whose handle and hexagonal head are at right angles.
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A wrench or spanner with a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.
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An adjustable wrench in which the movable jaw is made fast by a key.
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A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.
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Alternative form of monkey wrench [A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.]
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Alternative form of monkey wrench [A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.]
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Synonym of adjustable pliers
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An instrument for fixing on nuts or removing them from screws.
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A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
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An adjustable wrench (British spanner) with a toothed jaw for gripping pipe, frequently used by a plumber or pipe fitter, to loosen and tighten pipes with threaded connections.
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An adjustable hand tool with a sliding mechanism, that combines a tongue-and-groove pliers / water pump pliers with an adjustable spanner. It is a water pump pliers with a flat head.
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To fire or fix such a fastening.
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A punch worked by means of a ratchet lever.
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A wrench, implementing a ratchet mechanism, usually used with a set of sockets to engage the head of a bolt or similar.
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(especially (US)) a wrench with a ring-shaped jaw with internal serrations which grip onto a nut or bolt.
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A tool, used for the maintenance of chainsaws, that combines two wrench sockets and a screwdriver.
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A tool for grasping the flat sides of the heads of large screws.
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A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
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(weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
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a wrench or tool used to adjust the tension in the spokes of a tension-spoked wheel, such as a typical bicycle wheel
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(engineering) pipe wrench
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(engineering) Stillson wrench, pipe wrench, monkey wrench
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Synonym of plumber wrench
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A torsion wrench, an L-shaped lockpicking tool.
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A short bar put through the hole in a socket spanner or box spanner to provide leverage.
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Synonym of torque wrench
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A workshop tool used to precisely apply a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut or bolt; basically a wrench equipped with a torque indicator.
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An L-shaped tool used in lock picking to apply torsion to the inner cylinder of a lock, in order to hold any picked pins in place, while the other pins are shifted, and then to turn the inner cylinder and open the lock.
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A tuning wrench with a hammer attachment for regulating tension in stringed instruments.
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A specialized socket wrench used to tune stringed instruments that have strings wrapped around tuning pins.
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A tool, especially a screwdriver, for making small adjustments.
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The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
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Synonym of adjustable pliers
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(US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
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A wrench with the end shaped so that it can be used as a hammer.
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