crescent wrench

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   an adjustable wrench designed to fit hexagonal nuts with the adjusting screw built into the head of the wrench

   Broaderadjustable wrench

Questions about crescent wrench

What does crescent wrench mean?

crescent wrench means "an adjustable wrench designed to fit hexagonal nuts with the adjusting screw built into the head of the wrench".

Is crescent wrench a common word?

crescent wrench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.