Crossword clues for spanned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Span \Span\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Spanning.] [AS. pannan; akin to D. & G. spannen, OHG. spannan, Sw. sp["a]nna, Dan. sp[ae]nde, Icel. spenna, and perh. to Gr. ? to draw, to drag, L. spatium space. [root]170. Cf. Spin, v. t., Space, Spasm.]
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To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
My right hand hath spanned the heavens.
--Isa. xiviii. 13. -
To reach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch.
The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
--prescott. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: span)
WordNet
n. the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour"
the distance or interval between two points
two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]
a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn: bridge]
the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle]
See span
Usage examples of "spanned".
Justen looked down to the river, which spanned nearly a hundred cubits.
The gates were actually more like towers, with spiked chains that spanned the river.
Dwarf took them down off the battlements, turning into a broad courtyard that spanned the center of the high dam where it walled away the Cillidellan.
Dwarf fortress, Jair and Elb Foraker looked down upon the locks and dams that spanned the gap between the mountains where the Silver River flowed.
Before her, a second stone bridge spanned a second chasm, this one twice the size of the first, rugged and massive.
More interesting was the empty archway that spanned the trail-though even Egin hesitated upon entering.
These wars, known as the Trolloc Wars, spanned approximately 350 years and spread destruction across most of the continent.
The bar spanned one end, and the other featured a false window that showed a nighttime cityscape of Old New York.
She looked down at the cut, and at the many spindly gantries and catwalks that spanned the aperture or hung some way toward the centre of the Moat.
There were four wagons out spanned under the tall arched wild fig trees on the bank of the river above the ford.
The bridge itself spanned the width of a gentle stream which meandered down the hillside.
Using the tall doors from one of the barns they had created a strong, padlocked gate across the stone bridge which spanned the width of the water.
Emal, just above the river, on the low bluff that passed for a headland, guarding the high-arched and narrow stone bridge that spanned the Vedra.
With a boom, a blazing pillar of fire erupted from the point of a soaring tower on the walking bridge that spanned the Royal Canal.
These deep-core aliens, these hydrogues, had an entire hidden network of civilization that spanned at least as much area as the Hansa or the Ildiran Empire.