Associations to the word «Spreader»

Wiktionary

SPREADER, noun. An object or person who spreads.
SPREADER, noun. A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
SPREADER, noun. A device used to spread bulk material.
SPREADER, noun. A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
SPREADER, noun. (nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
SPREADER, noun. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
SPREADER, noun. The moving platform of a container crane.

Dictionary definition

SPREADER, noun. A hand tool for spreading something; "he used his knife as a spreader".
SPREADER, noun. A mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King