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Spreader   /sprˈɛdər/   Listen
Spreader

noun
1.
A hand tool for spreading something.
2.
A mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions.  Synonym: broadcaster.


Spread

adjective
1.
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent.  Synonym: dispersed.  "Eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
2.
Prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out.
3.
Fully extended in width.  Synonym: outspread.  "With arms spread wide"



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"Spreader" Quotes from Famous Books



... raise the bottom of the Petri dish in the left hand, leaving the cover on the laboratory bench, and holding it vertically, smear the drop of inoculum all over the surface of the gelatine with the short arm of the spreader by a rotatory motion, (Fig. 127). Replace the ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... sorrel like to know what noise really was? Then let him be hooked into a triple Boston backing hitch and snake a truck down West Street, with the whiffle-trees slatting in front of him, the spreader-bar rapping jig time on the poles, and the gongs of street-cars and automobiles and fire-engines and ambulances all going at once. Noise? Let him mix in a Canal Street jam or back up for a load ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford


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