Crossword clues for spreader
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
late 15c., agent noun from spread (v.).
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 spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast. 6 A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning. 7 The moving platform of a container crane.
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]
Wikipedia
Spreader can refer to:
- Broadcast spreader, an agricultural machinery or lawn care tool designed to spread seed, fertilizer, lime, sand, ice melt, etc.
- Spreader (railroad), a kind of maintenance of way equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles.
- Hydraulic spreader, a tool used by emergency crews in vehicle extrication.
- Spreader (sailboat), a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast.
- Spreader bar, a BDSM bondage device.
- Spreader (lifting), a lifting device used to distribute forces appropriately for structural or interference reasons.
- Manure spreader, an agricultural machinery designed to spread manure.
- Spreader (container), often "spreader bar", device to attach transport containers to cranes
- Spreader (mining), a heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering.
A spreader is a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast. Often, there are multiples, called spreaders. The spreader or spreaders serve much the same purpose as the crosstrees and tops in a traditional sailing vessel.
Spreader design and tuning can be quite complex. The spreaders may be fixed (rigid) or swinging (pivoted at the mast). The purpose of the spreaders is to control, by either limiting, or inducing, bend into the spar so that when the windward shroud is loaded the mast achieves the desired bend characteristics. The spreaders may be designed to be angled in a way that either forces bend in to the spar or reduces bend, depending on the desired results.
de:Saling fr:Barre de flèche
Category:Sailing rigs and rigging
The spreader is a device used for lifting containers and unitized cargo.
The spreader used for containers has a locking mechanism at each corner that attaches the four corners of the container. A spreader can be used on a container crane, a straddle carrier and with any other machinery to lift containers.
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 dig ditches, evenly distribute gravel, as well as trim embankments of brush along the side of the track. The operation of the wings was once performed by compressed air, and later hydraulics. Besides the MoW-operation spreaders are also used in open cast mines to clean the tracks from overburden tipped from dump cars.
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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, BWEs, are used for continuous overburden removal in surface mining applications. They use their cutting wheels to strip away a section of earth (the working block) dictated by the size of the excavator.
The overburden is then delivered to the discharge boom, which transfers the cut earth to another machine for transfer it to the central collection area where the material will be sorted. Then the remains of the overburden will be transported to the spreader which then scatters the overburden at the dumping ground.
The purpose of the spreader is to receive overburden from the haulage conveyor from the sorting area and dump it in an orderly and efficient manner.
Bild 4. Spreader(Absetzer (ger)) in the Hambach open pit.
Bild 5. Spreader(Absetzer (ger))in the Sophienhöhe open pit.
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.