: a small knife used especially for spreading butter
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: a device (such as a bar) holding two linear elements (such as lines, guys, rails) apart and usually taut
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Mosquito are spreaders of disease.
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This hindered cooling as the cache sat between the hot cores and the processor’s heat spreader.—Antony Leather, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 To apply, pile compost into the spreader hopper and push the spreader across your lawn in a north-to-south direction.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025 The public works department has 48 dump trucks with snowplows and salt spreaders, nine pickup trucks with plows, six loaders and one grader.—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025 There are no tractors here, no fertilizer spreaders or irrigation systems.—Heide Brandes, thehustle.co, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spreader
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