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Meanings of spreader in English

Russian
салинг

Structural element of sailing vessels.

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          салинг

          A mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions.

                Usage of spreader in English
                1
                We've used that as an opportunity to buy a new big spreader.
                Radio NZ
                2
                The spreader bars expanded, pushing the walls father apart, making an opening.
                Earth Unaware
                3
                Florio wedged another spreader into the foot space and hit the hydraulics.
                The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
                4
                As Cammy takes the offered blade, Grady says, Mom's old cheese spreader.
                Breathless
                5
                The middle spreader can be cylindrical and 2 inches in diameter.
                The Radio Amateur's Hand Book / A Complete, Authentic and Inform...
                6
                You have had no physical contact with another sinner or potential Covid spreader.
                The Irish Times
                7
                It was coming into the outer limits of the spreader lights.
                Dead calm
                8
                When the application is fairly heavy, a manure-spreader does satisfactory work.
                Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
                9
                Finally, Lange was a saver by nature and not a spreader.
                Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
                10
                Leaving the spreader where it was, Stilgar climbed up to the next ring.
                The Winds of Dune
                11
                He came up, got one leg across the spreader, and then the other.
                Dead calm
                12
                For the latter, a small knife, called a butter spreader, is sometimes provided.
                School and Home Cooking
                13
                They missed one and that person turned out to be a super spreader.
                Wired
                14
                He's not going to host a super spreader event at the White House.
                The South African
                15
                He is a great dissimulator, a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
                The Book of Life
                16
                They were a loathsome collection of rags not fit to clean a manure spreader.
                Bring the Jubilee
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                Spreader through the time