Spreader may refer to:
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Broadcast spreader
A broadcast seeder, alternately called a broadcaster, broadcast spreader or centrifugal fertilizer spreader (Europe) or "spinner" (UK), is a farm implement commonly used for spreading seed where no row planting is required (mostly for lawns and me ...
, an agricultural machinery or lawn care tool designed to spread seed, fertilizer, lime, sand, ice melt, etc.
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Spreader (railroad)
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, c ...
, a kind of maintenance of way equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles
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Hydraulic spreader
Hydraulic rescue tools, also known as jaws of life, are used by emergency rescue personnel to assist in the extrication of victims involved in vehicle accidents, as well as other rescues in small spaces. These tools include cutters, spreaders, ...
, a tool used by emergency crews in vehicle extrication
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Spreader (sailboat)
A spreader is a spar on a sailing boat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast. The spreader or spreaders serve much the same purpose as the crosstrees
Crosstrees are the two horizontal spars at the upper ends of ...
, a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast
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Spreader bar, a BDSM bondage device
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Spreader (lifting), a lifting device used to distribute forces appropriately for structural or interference reasons
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Manure spreader
A manure spreader or muck spreader or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer. A typical (modern) manure spreader consists of a trailer towed behind a tractor with a rotating mechanism driven ...
, an agricultural machinery designed to spread manure
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Spreader (mining)
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.
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, a heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering
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