Definitions

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  • noun engineering Stillson wrench, pipe wrench, monkey wrench

Etymologies

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From the American inventor Daniel Chapman Stillson.

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Examples

  • Billings proved to be sound asleep, napping off the effects of over - indulgence in browned perch, so the boys decided to await the return of Mr. Fulton, a search of the workshop having failed to reveal the wrench, and none of the Stillsons being big enough to take the big nut that capped the fifty-gallon tank sunk in the ground on the shady north side of the hangar.

    Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Gordon Stuart

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