: 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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Crews were out Monday loading trucks with salt, mounting plows and installing salt spreaders onto trucks as well.—Nikki Dementri, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025 By 1961, over 2 million planters, spreaders and drills had been manufactured here.—Chase Jordan
updated November 13, Charlotte Observer, 13 Nov. 2025 Every Butternaise purchase comes with equipment and ingredients to create a sandwich, like a spreader and two types of cheddar cheese, and costs $15.—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025 Heat spreaders allow the heat to move laterally, diluting it and allowing the circuits to cool.—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spreader
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