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Answer for the clue "Farm implement ", 8 letters:
spreader

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Word definitions for spreader in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spreaders in mining are heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering. The primary function of a spreader is to act as a continuous spreading machine in large-scale open pit mining operations. Bucket-wheel excavators ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hand tool for spreading something; "he used his knife as a spreader" a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions [syn: broadcaster ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rance \Rance\ (r[a^]ns), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A prop or shore. [Scot.] A round between the legs of a chair; also called a spreader .

Usage examples of spreader.

Like your own ancestor Lord Manu, rajkumars, who composed the laws by which civilized humans would govern themselves, descended from the deva Surya himself, who was likewise a seed spreader of the Ikshvaaku clan, and one of the founders of the Arya race.

And, boy, did they know from tack downhaul, kicking strap, mainsheet, clew outhaul, topping lift, boom, tack, reefing points, leech, spreader, foresail hanks, shrouds, inner forestay, stanchion, toe rail, and fin keel!

John Deere 420S row crop tractor, hauled a manure spreader, pulled a small bushhog, and felt like a friend.

Blarney Garda Station, too, so that they know where to look for absconding road-drills and runaway tarmac spreaders, and any other property that goes for a walk.

Inside were several surgical instruments, a stainless-steel handsaw, a cranium drill, a mixed set of scalpels, forceps, hemostats, rib spreaders, and a variety of clamps, their stainless- and chromium-steel surfaces gleaming in the light of the bedside-table lamps.

Motorists, pedestrians, vehicular traffic, suburban thoroughfares, snow emergency routes, snow removal equipment, sanitation crews, salt spreaders, accumulations, bridges and tunnels and airports.

And because they remain in circulation they tend to be the great spreaders of the disease.

She's the contactor, the shining example of purity and sweetness and light - in short, the spreader of good old oil.

Fog swallowed the mast down to the spreaders, and gusts screamed through the rigging like the ribald laughter of hags.

You could say whatever you wanted to about organic fertilizer, but there was something almost fragrant about it when the spreader was laying it down in the fields.