spreader
IPA: sprˈɛdɝ
noun
- An object or person who spreads.
- A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
- A device used to spread bulk material.
- A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
- (nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
- A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
- The moving platform of a container crane.
- (computing, slang) A member of a cracking group who distributes warez.
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Examples of "spreader" in Sentences
- Manure was loaded into the spreader.
- An axe handle was used for the spreader bar.
- A spreader for liquid or solid farmyard manure.
- This is an encyclopedia not an ignorance spreader.
- The spreader mounts on a vehicle or like structure.
- Next after the starboard spreader is the port spreader.
- A spreader frame straddles the pipeline to be entrenched.
- The container is lifted by a spreader attached to cables.
- A spreader for feeding and uniformly distributing grain in a bin.
- But actually, the knives in the pic are not scrapers, but spreaders.
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