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Spreader   /sprˈɛdər/   Listen
Spreader

noun
1.
A hand tool for spreading something.
2.
A mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions.  Synonym: broadcaster.





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"Spreader" Quotes from Famous Books



... after. One sex did not take the priority which long-established custom has awarded it, nor the other overstep that delicacy which is so severely imposed. I am not conscious that either party can assume to have been the agent or the patient, the toil-spreader or the prey, in the affair. When, in the course of things, the disclosure came, there was nothing, in a manner, for either party to disclose to the other.... It ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell
... reference is found in the writings of Dr. Nott, of Mobile, Ala., who in 1848 suggested that the dissemination of the yellow fever poison was evidently by means of some insect "that remained very close to the ground." But the first who positively pointed to the mosquito as the spreader of yellow fever, who showed that absence of mosquitoes precluded the existence of the disease and who prescribed the ready means to stamp it out, by fumigation and by preventing the bites of the insects, was Dr. Louis D. Beauperthuy, ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86


Words linked to "Spreader" :   spread, mechanical device, hand tool


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