spannern.¹

Brit.

/ˈspanə/, U.S.

/ˈspænər/

Etymology: < German spanner (also spänner , Swedish spännare ), < spannen span v.²

†1. An instrument by which the spring in a wheel-lock firearm was spanned or wound up. Obsolete.Phillips (ed. Kersey, 1706) has ‘Spanner, the Cock of a Carbine or Fusee’; hence in later dictionaries, as Bailey (1721), Johnson (1755), with ‘Lock’ in place of ‘Cock’.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > instruments

newel1611

spanner1639

height-board1672

height-rule1692

star gauge1784

spindle1842

gun-pendulum1867

1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre 293 A case of good Firelocke Pistolles,..with his Spanner and flaske boxes.

1644 J. Howell England's Teares in Dodona's Grove 169 My Prince his Court is now full of nothing but Buff-Coats, Spanners, and Musket Rests.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 243/2 The second is called a Spanner; it is a thing made of Iron, haueing a square hole in the bending part of it, by which the springs of wheele locks are wound vp.

1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel II. 29 He then took the spanner..and bent the spring which communicated with the axis-pin of his wheel-lock.]

a. A hand-tool, usually consisting of a small bar of steel, having an opening, grip, or jaw at the end which fits over or clasps the nut of a screw, a bolt, coupling, etc., and turns it or holds it in position; a wrench.There are several makes of spanner, and they vary greatly in shape and size, some having one opening, others two; some taking one size of nut, etc., others being adjustable to nuts of different sizes.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench

turn-bolt1596

wrenching-iron1597

key1659

screw key1742

spanner1790

screw wrench1791

wrench1794

screw spanner1831

wrencher1832

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Spanner, a wrench; a nut screw-driver.

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 215 A screw attached to a spanner or lever.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 101 Wood carriage complete, with wrought iron screw and spanner for elevating mortar.

1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 22 A nut which screws on to the end of the spindle and is tightened up by means of a spanner.

b. Colloquial phrase to throw a spanner in the works and variants: to cause disruption, to interfere with the smooth running of something. Cf. to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery at monkey wrench n. 2.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [verb (intransitive)] > hinder by interference

interrupt1412

intervene1649

to break in1657

intercedea1661

to queer the pitch1846

to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery1907

to gum (up) the works1932

to throw a spanner in the works1934

1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xi. 142 He should have had sense enough to see that he was throwing a spanner into the works.

1939 A. Ransome Secret Water i. 18 We can't go. It's all off. The First Lord's chucked a spanner in the works.

1946 D. L. Sayers Unpop. Opinions 111 She was in love with Leicester—why didn't she marry him? Well, for the very same reason that numberless kings have not married their lovers—because it would have thrown a spanner into the wheels of the State machine.

1959 News Chron. 10 July 4/1 Mr. Cousins has thrown a spanner into the Labour Party's works.

1960 ‘R. East’ Kingston Black ix. 90 My department might be able to throw a spanner into the works—if necessary.

1977 Time Out 17 June 5/4 Either way, the 60 workers occupying the factory have put a spanner in the works.

3. Mechanics.

a. A bar or lever for opening the valves of a steam-engine (see quots.).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > devices for opening or closing

scoggan1719

plug-frame1734

spanner1773

plug-tree1782

plug-rod1794

throttle lever1839

1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 230 The horizontal piece h 3, called the spanner; so that moving h back and forward, moves the plate 45 over the hole 2, and back again.

1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 175 Two valves, which are moved alternately by levers acted on on the outside from the revolution of a spanner or lever attached to the hollow axle.

1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.F 1. 2 Lower down on this spindle..is keyed a duplex spanner or rocking lever 1, one end of which is attached..to the valve rod of the small engine.

b. In a parallel-motion steam-engine (see quots.).

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1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 306 The lever e is called the Spanner or Lever of Parallel Motion.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 640 Spanner, an important balance in forming the radius of parallel motion in a steam-engine, since it reconciles the curved sweep which the side levers describe with the perpendicular movement of the piston-rod, by means of which they are driven.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.

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1830 G. R. Ainslie Anglo-Fr. Coinage 66 Two spanner-like towers.

1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 69 The small worm shown in the spanner head.

C2.

spanner tight adj. of a nut: as tight as can be secured manually with a spanner.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > nut > types of

castellated1904

spanner tight1925

1925 Morris Owner's Man. 53 The nuts should always be kept (small) spanner tight.

1931 Daily Express 31 Jan. 3/6 Even where the nut was absolutely spanner tight.

spanner wrench n. U.S. a non-adjustable spanner.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > non-adjustable

spanner wrench1940

1940 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Mar. 20/1 The fuel door..was bolted closed the night before the ship sank, but was found open with a spanner wrench beside it when salvagers examined the sunken vessel.

1969 Publ. Amer. Dial Soc. lii. 35 Spanner wrench,..a wrench having a fixed distance between its jaws which fits on the hose couplings and is used to tighten or loosen connections.

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colloquial (chiefly British). a bag (also box) of spanners and variants: used as the type of a thing which or person who is extremely unattractive, useless, stupid, etc. Frequently in similative use, esp. in to have a face like a bag of spanners: to be extremely unattractive.The phrase was popularized by the British comedian Les Dawson (1931–93): see quots. 1976, 1981.

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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > unattractive [phrase]

not to be much to look at1861

to have a face like a bag of spanners1976

1976 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 25 Nov. 14/5 That love of words was born in his [sc. Les Dawson's] childhood in the North of England... I asked him for an example. ‘How about this for a description of someone? He had a face like a bagful of spanners’.

1981 L. Dawson in Listener 27 Aug. 206/1 What a woman; she's got a face like a bag of spanners... It's no secret in the family that she was drummed out of the Gestapo for cruelty.

1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 Oct. 31 ‘He hasn't really done anything of cultural importance,’ said one, and, oddly enough, those were exactly the same words that passed through my mind as I looked at the bag of spanners who was speaking.

1999 Bike Dec. 117/1 (table) Meant to be a sports tourer but is a rattley, lumpy bag of spanners.

2015 @JoshuaDH_ 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2019) He may have the body of an Adonis, but he still has a face like a box of spanners.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spanner
释义	spannern.¹ Brit. /ˈspanə/, U.S. /ˈspænər/ Etymology: < German spanner (also spänner , Swedish spännare ), < spannen span v.² †1. An instrument by which the spring in a wheel-lock firearm was spanned or wound up. Obsolete.Phillips (ed. Kersey, 1706) has ‘Spanner, the Cock of a Carbine or Fusee’; hence in later dictionaries, as Bailey (1721), Johnson (1755), with ‘Lock’ in place of ‘Cock’. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > instruments newel1611 spanner1639 height-board1672 height-rule1692 star gauge1784 spindle1842 gun-pendulum1867 1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre 293 A case of good Firelocke Pistolles,..with his Spanner and flaske boxes. 1644 J. Howell England's Teares in Dodona's Grove 169 My Prince his Court is now full of nothing but Buff-Coats, Spanners, and Musket Rests. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 243/2 The second is called a Spanner; it is a thing made of Iron, haueing a square hole in the bending part of it, by which the springs of wheele locks are wound vp. 1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel II. 29 He then took the spanner..and bent the spring which communicated with the axis-pin of his wheel-lock.] 2. a. A hand-tool, usually consisting of a small bar of steel, having an opening, grip, or jaw at the end which fits over or clasps the nut of a screw, a bolt, coupling, etc., and turns it or holds it in position; a wrench.There are several makes of spanner, and they vary greatly in shape and size, some having one opening, others two; some taking one size of nut, etc., others being adjustable to nuts of different sizes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench turn-bolt1596 wrenching-iron1597 key1659 screw key1742 spanner1790 screw wrench1791 wrench1794 screw spanner1831 wrencher1832 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Spanner, a wrench; a nut screw-driver. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 215 A screw attached to a spanner or lever. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 101 Wood carriage complete, with wrought iron screw and spanner for elevating mortar. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 22 A nut which screws on to the end of the spindle and is tightened up by means of a spanner. b. Colloquial phrase to throw a spanner in the works and variants: to cause disruption, to interfere with the smooth running of something. Cf. to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery at monkey wrench n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [verb (intransitive)] > hinder by interference interrupt1412 intervene1649 to break in1657 intercedea1661 to queer the pitch1846 to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery1907 to gum (up) the works1932 to throw a spanner in the works1934 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves xi. 142 He should have had sense enough to see that he was throwing a spanner into the works. 1939 A. Ransome Secret Water i. 18 We can't go. It's all off. The First Lord's chucked a spanner in the works. 1946 D. L. Sayers Unpop. Opinions 111 She was in love with Leicester—why didn't she marry him? Well, for the very same reason that numberless kings have not married their lovers—because it would have thrown a spanner into the wheels of the State machine. 1959 News Chron. 10 July 4/1 Mr. Cousins has thrown a spanner into the Labour Party's works. 1960 ‘R. East’ Kingston Black ix. 90 My department might be able to throw a spanner into the works—if necessary. 1977 Time Out 17 June 5/4 Either way, the 60 workers occupying the factory have put a spanner in the works. 3. Mechanics. a. A bar or lever for opening the valves of a steam-engine (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > devices for opening or closing scoggan1719 plug-frame1734 spanner1773 plug-tree1782 plug-rod1794 throttle lever1839 1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 230 The horizontal piece h 3, called the spanner; so that moving h back and forward, moves the plate 45 over the hole 2, and back again. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 175 Two valves, which are moved alternately by levers acted on on the outside from the revolution of a spanner or lever attached to the hollow axle. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.F 1. 2 Lower down on this spindle..is keyed a duplex spanner or rocking lever 1, one end of which is attached..to the valve rod of the small engine. b. In a parallel-motion steam-engine (see quots.). ΚΠ 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 306 The lever e is called the Spanner or Lever of Parallel Motion. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 640 Spanner, an important balance in forming the radius of parallel motion in a steam-engine, since it reconciles the curved sweep which the side levers describe with the perpendicular movement of the piston-rod, by means of which they are driven. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1830 G. R. Ainslie Anglo-Fr. Coinage 66 Two spanner-like towers. 1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 69 The small worm shown in the spanner head. C2. spanner tight adj. of a nut: as tight as can be secured manually with a spanner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > nut > types of castellated1904 spanner tight1925 1925 Morris Owner's Man. 53 The nuts should always be kept (small) spanner tight. 1931 Daily Express 31 Jan. 3/6 Even where the nut was absolutely spanner tight. spanner wrench n. U.S. a non-adjustable spanner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > non-adjustable spanner wrench1940 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Mar. 20/1 The fuel door..was bolted closed the night before the ship sank, but was found open with a spanner wrench beside it when salvagers examined the sunken vessel. 1969 Publ. Amer. Dial Soc. lii. 35 Spanner wrench,..a wrench having a fixed distance between its jaws which fits on the hose couplings and is used to tighten or loosen connections. Draft additions June 2020 colloquial (chiefly British). a bag (also box) of spanners and variants: used as the type of a thing which or person who is extremely unattractive, useless, stupid, etc. Frequently in similative use, esp. in to have a face like a bag of spanners: to be extremely unattractive.The phrase was popularized by the British comedian Les Dawson (1931–93): see quots. 1976, 1981. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > unattractive [phrase] not to be much to look at1861 to have a face like a bag of spanners1976 1976 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 25 Nov. 14/5 That love of words was born in his [sc. Les Dawson's] childhood in the North of England... I asked him for an example. ‘How about this for a description of someone? He had a face like a bagful of spanners’. 1981 L. Dawson in Listener 27 Aug. 206/1 What a woman; she's got a face like a bag of spanners... It's no secret in the family that she was drummed out of the Gestapo for cruelty. 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 Oct. 31 ‘He hasn't really done anything of cultural importance,’ said one, and, oddly enough, those were exactly the same words that passed through my mind as I looked at the bag of spanners who was speaking. 1999 Bike Dec. 117/1 (table) Meant to be a sports tourer but is a rattley, lumpy bag of spanners. 2015 @JoshuaDH_ 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2019) He may have the body of an Adonis, but he still has a face like a box of spanners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † spannern.² Obsolete. (Origin and meaning obscure.) Π 1653 (title) The Total Rout, or a Brief Discovery Of a Pack of Knaves and Drabs, intituled Pimps, Panders, Hectors, Trapans, Nappers, Mobs, and Spanners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). spannern.³ Etymology: < span v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspanner. rare. A rib forming part of a roof-span. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam pan1284 roof-tree1321 wiverc1325 sile1338 wind-beam1374 bindbalkc1425 trave1432 purlin1439 side-waver1451 wind-balk1532 roof beam1551 post1567 crock1570 spercil1570 collar-beam1659 camber1679 top-beam1679 camber-beam1721 jack rafter1736 hammer-beam1823 tie-beam1823 spar-piece1842 viga1844 collar1858 spanner1862 cruck1898 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 527/2 A spanner like the rib of a groined roof springs from each to unite with its antagonist from the other side of the roof-ridge;..similar, but smaller, spanners perform the same office for the aisle roofs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1639n.²1653n.³1862
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Compounds

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