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Farm machine
Answer for the clue "Farm machine ", 8 letters:
spreader
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Word definitions for spreader in dictionaries
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 .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., agent noun from spread (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spreader is a type of maintenance equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles. The spreader spreads gravel along the railroad ties. The various ploughs, wings and blades of specific spreaders allow them to remove snow , build banks, clean and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An object or person who spreads. 2 A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart. 3 A device used to spread bulk material. 4 A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly. 5 (context nautical English) A horizontal athwartships ...
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.