Definitions for spreaders

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spreaders spread·er

Spelling: [spred-er]

IPA: /ˈsprɛd ər/

Spreaders is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in spreaders (adeeprrss).

Definitions for spreaders

noun

1. a person or thing that spreads.
2. a small, dull knife or spatula used for spreading butter, jelly, etc., on bread.
3. a machine for dispersing bulk material:
4. a device for spacing or keeping apart two objects, as electric wires.
5. Nautical. a strut for spreading shrouds on a mast.

Origin of spreaders

First recorded in 1475-85; spread + -er¹

Examples for spreaders

The other method, called the spreader method, was more intricate.

The size of the loop is determined by the width of the mesh stick or spreader (No. 2).

It can be broadcasted by hand if a spreader is not available, and mixed with the surface soil while in a powdered state.

The coating on the drum is controlled or regulated by a spreader.

He is a glutton, a poisoner, a spreader of disease, a dispenser of disturbing music.

A tavern-keeper, a baker, for example, might perhaps have him arrested as a forger or a spreader of counterfeits.

Since the spreader also rams the concrete, it is difficult to separate these two items.

The spreader is usually stationed in the nearest side track to the unloading place.

At z is a wedge for adjusting the spreader w so as to keep it close to the saw whatever the diameter of the latter may be.

Here's a royal feast spread for us, an' th' spreader's queen o' th' pirates!