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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sprayer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An ice cream churn on a plow was more or less all that a crop sprayer was in its earlier inception.
▪ Better to remove the sprayer and use a cotton swab or small artist brush.
▪ David's even sent in requests for updated safety masks for the paint sprayers to use.
▪ I would like to clean it regularly with a pressure sprayer.
▪ It could also carry pollution monitors, crop sprayers or telecommunications equipment.
▪ Nicholas Doig with the Schering Packman closed transfer system fitted to the farm's 2,500-litre trailed sprayer.
▪ Water is then fed into the hopper and the dilute liquid fed into the sprayer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprayer

Sprayer \Spray"er\ (spr[=a]"[~e]r), n. One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids.

Wiktionary
sprayer

n. an object used for spraying, e.g. a spray bottle

WordNet
sprayer
  1. n. a worker who applies spray to a surface

  2. a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray [syn: atomizer, atomiser, spray]

Wikipedia
Sprayer

A sprayer is a device used to spray a liquid.

In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops. Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks with spray guns) to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors, with boom mounts of 60–151 feet in length.

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Usage examples of "sprayer".

Fifty feet away, combat engineers laid fiberglass panels on rock and assembled epoxy sprayers to glue them into shelters.

Patrick noted the odor of insect spray in the air, but supposed that Fayle must have used the sprayer before leaving for the garden.

Artificial humidification of the air entering the motor, by means of sprayer and fan.

She remembered Cho spraying Malathion gleefully, using an old pump sprayer, no face mask, no protection.

The trunks contained field space suits, battery packs, rubber gloves, surgical scrub suits, syringes, needles, drugs, dissection tools, flashlights, one or two human surgery packs, blunt scissors, sample bags, plastic bottles, pickling preservatives, biohazard bags marked with red flowers, and hand-pumped garden sprayers for spraying beach on space suits and objects that needed to be decontaminated.

Of the seven companies listed, four offered heavy equipment: lifts, loaders, backhoes, hand tools, paint sprayers, scaffolding, generators, air compressors, and related items.

I mean, I could rent a power washer, buy the paint, a sprayer, dropcloths and stirrers and everything and still wind up spending one-tenth what a housepainter was asking.

After a few minutes, Mantelish came puffing in with sprayers and cans of solvent.

Jars of blessed distilled water cut with carbolic acid waited beside the tables, and more in sprayers along with iodine and mold-powder.

First came the sprayers, pocking the ground with little upbursts of dirt, and shredding the morning silence with the noise of their grease guns.

Crop dusters, mosquito abatement trucks, larvicide in the sewers and storm drains, even a hundred crews with hand-held foggers and backpack sprayers working their way through the city, street by street, could hardly make a dent until the cold weather arrived.

Then Gentry came in with a mask and a sprayer and twenty gallons of white latex paint.

He washed his suit and the bombs with the bleach sprayer in the staging-area hallway before he took off the suit and discarded it in a plastic bag.

The green-clad man picked up the other man's breathing mask and popped in the sprayer.

The steam valve which Brook had now screwed shut was up on the bulkhead near the door shutting it had cut steam from the fuel-supply pump - and the switch he'd tripped on the console had shut the supply between pump and sprayers.