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Definition of Monkey wrench
1. Noun. Adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw.
Definition of Monkey wrench
1. Noun. A wrench with a smooth adjustable jaw to grip different sizes of nuts. ¹
2. Noun. A pipe wrench. ¹
3. Noun. (idiomatic) A problem, obstacle or dilemma; something unexpected or troublesome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkey Wrench
Literary usage of Monkey wrench
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"Wherever we go—whether east or west— If a screw gets loose, we try the test, And
bring our "monkey-wrench" in play, Till the bands are tight—then on our way ..."
2. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"Wherever we go—whether east or west— If a screw gets loose, we try the test, And
bring our "monkey-wrench" in play, Till the bands are tight—then on our way ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1911)
"But the physician, who attended the plaintiff's intestate, testified that the
intestate told him that the monkey wrench hit the spliced cable, ..."
4. Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care: A Comprehensive, Simple and by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1912)
"Monkey-wrench as Pipe Wrench hand you can often handle a pipe successfully by
placing a three-cornered file in a monkey wrench ..."
5. The Horseless Age (1904)
"BEGINNER'S PAGE To the first of the two classes of tools herein discussed (those
for ordinary adjustments) belong the monkey wrench, screw driver, ..."
6. Gasolene Engines; Their Operation, Use and Care: Their Operation, Use and by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1912)
"Monkey-wrench as Pipe Wrench hand you can often handle a pipe successfully by
placing a three-cornered file in a monkey wrench and using this on the pipe ..."
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