Associations to the word «Spreader»
Noun
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.