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spawner
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a female fish at spawning time
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spawner \Spawn"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. --Walton. Whatever produces spawn of any kind.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context fishing English) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn 2 (context computing English) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
Usage examples of spawner.
He told himself that, for a serious spawner, getting there was more than half the fun it was at least fifty-one percent of the fun.
Alan Bragle, returned to complete a sacred mission -a willing spawner of sound mind and body with a scrotum brimful of ready wrigglers.
The spawner of ova for the Doctils and the only one of her kind left alive.
Sophie and Fred bargained their prodigal down to one--just one--child of the unspeakable Shub-Niggurath, father of the woods and eternal spawner of obscene life forms in his root-roofed cavern beneath the rolling green hillsides around Arkham City.
Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans.
The spawners had long since left for the deeper seas, but the unmated or immature would linger along the coast for another month, remaining a constant worry to seamen who lacked the protection of the heartstone or the presence of a Guild fisherman who had decided to sell his services to the Merchants and Captains rather than plying his normal trade.