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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.





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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


Words linked to "Spreader" :   mechanical device, broadcaster, spread, hand tool


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