spreader
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈspɹɛdɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
spreader (plural spreaders)
- An object or person who spreads.
- A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
- A device used to spread bulk material.
- Ellen put grass seed on the lawn with a seed spreader.
- A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
- James used a spreader to butter her bagel.
- (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.
- 2017, Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories: Going to New York:
- Spreaders uploaded the games to an online BBS to distribute the games as quickly as possible to as many people as possible.
Derived terms
Translations
object or person who spreads
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spacer
device used to spread bulk material
horizontal spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds