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Definition of Socket wrench
1. Noun. A wrench with a handle onto which sockets of different sizes can be fitted.
Definition of Socket wrench
1. Noun. A type of wrench featuring multiple interchangeable ''socket heads'' (each designed to fit a particular size of bolt head or other fastener) which can be attached by a socket arrangement to a ratcheting wrench handle or other driver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socket Wrench
Literary usage of Socket wrench
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"It is often difficult to get a socket wrench thin enough to fit between the nut
... A solid socket wrench, cut away in the manner illustrated, possesses the ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"The most common form of socket wrench is illustrated in Fig. ... The offset is
generally not as important in the socket wrench as in the solid-end or ..."
3. Forgecraft by Charles Philip Crowe (1913)
"... way the fiber of the material runs in the direction of the greatest strain in
service. Fig. 3. Fig. 2. socket wrench ..."
4. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1920)
"socket wrench FOR PUTTING ON A SADDLE. JT SPETTIGUE, SUPT. THE BUCKEYE STATE GAS
AND FUEL CO., COSHOCTON, OHIO. The photograph shows a wrinkle which is a ..."
5. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1898)
"Insert a small socket wrench through hole in shell of torpedo, place its end ...
Set distance gear by means of socket wrench inserted through a hole in the ..."
6. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1916)
"MARVEL ADJUSTABLE socket wrench AND ALL INTERMEDIATE SIZES Did you ever try to
... The socket wrench Is suitable for such places. Quite often the socket ..."
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