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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
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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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