Definition of Box wrench

1. Noun. A wrench with a closed loop (a socket) that fits over a nut or bolt head.

Exact synonyms: Box End Wrench
Terms within: Socket
Generic synonyms: Spanner, Wrench

Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Wrench

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box scores
box seat
box seats
box set
box sets
box spring
box the gnat
box tortoise
box tree
box turtle
box up
box white oak
box wine
box wrench (current term)
boxable
boxball
boxberries
boxberry
boxboard
boxboards
boxcar
boxcar function
boxcar functions
boxcars
boxcutter
boxcutters
boxed

Literary usage of Box wrench

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Automobile Repairshop Short-cuts: Over 1500 Time and Labor-saving Kinks by Motor World (1918)
"FING-box wrench The wrench illustrated is used to tighten the water pump stuffing box. It is made of thin steel tubing of about ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"1—box end wrench for welding blow-pipe. 1—box wrench for welding tips. 1—pair special colored lens goggles. PREST-0-LITE WELDING BLOWPIPE •U-. ..."

3. Aviation Engines: Design--construction--operation and Repair; a Complete by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"The large box wrench shown under the vise is used for removing large special nuts and sometimes has one end of the proper size to fit the valve chamber cap. ..."

4. Machine Drawing by Ralph Winchester Hills (1917)
"... and the dimension is placed outside and in line with one of the arrows. Problem 3 Make a full-size pencil drawing of the J-in. hexagonal box wrench, ..."

5. Machinery's Encyclopedia: A Work of Reference Covering Practical Mathematics by Erik Oberg, Franklin Day Jones (1917)
"... VI, 364-5 Boxwood hammers, designating size, IV, 286-5 Boxwood, specific gravity and weight, V, 399-f box wrench, VI, 553-4 Boyer pneumatic hammer, V, ..."

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