spanner

Noun

 * 1)  A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts; a wrench.
 * 2)  One who, or that which, spans.
 * 3)  A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
 * 4)  A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
 * 5)  A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)
 * Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.
 * 1)  A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.
 * You spanner, Rodney! I wanted some time, not a bunch of thyme!
 * Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.
 * 1)  A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.
 * You spanner, Rodney! I wanted some time, not a bunch of thyme!

Translations

 * Arabic: مِفْتَاح إِنْجْلِيزِيّ
 * Moroccan Arabic: كالمونٌط
 * Azerbaijani:, qayka açarı
 * Bashkir: асҡыс
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: clau anglesa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 士巴拿
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fastnøgle,, skiftenøgle
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: boltilo
 * Finnish:
 * French: clef à écrous, /, serre-écrou,
 * Galician: chave
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: sufana
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: skrúflykill, skiptilykill
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: スパナ,
 * Malay: sepana
 * Maltese: ġewża
 * Maori: wāwāhi, mauhuri, huriperu
 * Marathi: पाना
 * Norman: clié à êcrouettes
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fastnøkkel
 * Persian:
 * Polish: klucz płaski
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кључ
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, llave fija
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: гайкови́й ключ, мутро́вий ключ
 * Welsh: sbaner


 * German: Knüppel (zwischen den Beinen), Sand (im Getriebe)


 * Maltese:
 * Romanian:

Verb

 * 1) To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner