spreader

One that spreads, as.

A butter knife.

A farm or garden implement for scattering fertilizer or seed.

A device, such as a bar, for keeping wires or stays apart.

A horizontal support used to spread shrouds on a mast.

One who or that which spreads, One who or that which expands, outspreads, or spreads abroad. See spread, v. i.

One who or that which extends, diffuses, disseminates, etc. See spread, v. t.

In flax-manuf., a machine for drawing and doubling flax from the heckles, and making it into slivers; a drawing-frame.

In cotton manufacturing, same as lapper, 2.

A device fitted to the nozle of a hose for causing the stream to spread into a thin fan of spray; a form of spray-nozle.