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Tube Wrench

Definition: Tube Wrench

Tube Wrench

Noun

1. Adjustable wrench for gripping and turning a pipe; has two serrated jaws that are adjusted to grip the pipe.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Tube Wrench

Synonym: pipe wrench (n). (additional references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tube Wrench

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
choke tube wrench	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Tube Wrench

Language		Translations for "tube wrench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rørtang (backup tong, back-up tong, breakout tongs, hand dog, lay tong, lay tongs, lazy tongs, make-up tong, pipe key, pipe tongs, pipe wrench). (various references)

Dutch		steeksleutel (engineers'wrench, open end wrench, open-ended spanner, open-jawed spanner, pipe key, pipe wrench, skeleton key, spanner), soksleutel (pipe key, pipe wrench), dopsleutel (pipe key, pipe wrench), bussleutel (pipe key, pipe wrench). (various references)

Finnish		vääntötyökalu (pipe key, pipe wrench), putkiavain (pipe key, pipe wrench). (various references)

French		clé � tube. (various references)

German		Rohrschlüssel (cylinder wrench, pipe key, pipe wrench). (various references)

Greek		κάβουρας (pipe key, pipe wrench), κλειδί σωλήνων (cylinder wrench, pipe key, pipe wrench). (various references)

Pig Latin		ubetay enchwray

Portuguese		chave de tubos (hand dog, pipe key, pipe tongs, pipe wrench). (various references)

Swedish		rörtång (pipe wrench). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Tube Wrench

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h-n-r-t-u-w"
	-2 letters: beechnut, unbreech.
	-3 letters: bencher, burthen, butcher, chunter, chutnee, wencher.
	-4 letters: breech, brunch, brunet, bunter, burnet, butene, center, centre, cherub, chewer, etcher, euchre, hunter, nether, neuter, recent, rechew, retune, tenrec, tenure, thence, trench, tureen, wether, whence, wrench, wretch, wuther.
	-5 letters: beech, bench, beret, berth, brent, brunt, brute, bunch, buret, burnt, butch, centu, cheer, chert, churn.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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