spatula

noun

A small implement having a broad, flat, flexible blade that is used to mix, spread, or lift material.

noun

A tongue depressor.

noun

A broad flat blade or strip of metal or wood, with unsharpened edges and a commonly rounded outer end (which may be spoon-shaped), and a handle: used for spreading, smoothing, scraping up, or stirring substances, comminuting powders, etc.

noun

A genus of Anatinæ, having the bill much longer than the head or tarsus, twice as wide at the end as at the base, there broadly rounded and spoon-shaped, with narrow prominent nail and numerous protrusive lamellæ; the shoveler-ducks or souchets.

noun

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under palette.

noun

A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

noun

A palette knife.

noun

A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

noun

a turner with a narrow flexible blade

noun

a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances