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Plural of spanner

regular plural

The plural of spanner is spanners.

Forms of spanner

Singularspanner /ˈspænə/
Pluralspanners
Countablecountable

Spanners in a sentence

  • More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.2009, Ron Clooney, A Measure of Wheat for a Penny, page 275. From the entry face like a bag of spanners
  • The best thing about Hayling Island (apart from its spanners) was its bounteous bushfuls of blackberries, from which I readily grazed.2011, Josie Dew, Slow Coast Home. From the entry bushful

Meaning of spanner

  1. noun A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
  2. noun Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.
  3. noun One who, or that which, spans.

Full definition of spanner

Questions about the plural of spanner

What is the plural of spanner?
The plural of spanner is spanners.
Is spanner countable?
Spanner is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spanner (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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