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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin