0 a metal tool with a shaped end, used to turn nuts and bolts:
an open-ended/adjustable/ring spanner
1 wrench
In their policy they think that by throwing in a few more spanners and tools, productivity will be increased.
They are much more apt to see how many spanners they can throw into the works and how many objections they can raise.
We are not throwing any spanners into the works, for there are no works to throw them in.
Screwdrivers and spanners are necessary in munitions factories.
Spanners can be used for various purposes: they can be used for good purposes, and they can be used for bad purposes.
Spanners are being put in the works of that gravy train.
Supposing that in the course of a flight over a distance of two or three miles a pilot were carelessly to jettison spanners at intervals.
The owner does not have to say that the deficiency is in five-inch spanners, and that nine have gone.
