The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spread \Spread\, n.
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Extent; compass.
I have got a fine spread of improvable land.
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Expansion of parts.
No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.
--Bacon. A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.]
A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon. [Brokers' Cant]
(Geom.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
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(Finance) An arbitrage transaction operated by buying and selling simultaneously in two separate markets, as Chicago and New York, when there is an abnormal difference in price between the two markets. It is called a
back spreadwhen the difference in price is less than the normal one.
(Gems) Surface in proportion to the depth of a cut stone.
Usage examples of "back spread".
About a metre into the fall, the grav harness on her back spread its wings and she fetched up hanging over us at head height with the gun slung across her shoulder.
He flopped back spread-eagled, his big stomach jiggling a little, then going still.