Word Meanings - SPREADER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. 2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Related words: (words related to SPREADER)

• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• DRAWBAR
  An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. A bar of iron with an eye at each end,
• DRAW
  draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a 1. To cause to move continuously by force
• DRAWLINK
  See
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• SPINNERULE
  One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
• SPINNEY
  See HUGHES
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• DRAWL
  To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• SPINNER
  A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
• DRAWBORE
  A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• UNDRAW
  To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• WIREDRAW
  To pass, or to draw off, through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. (more info) 1. To form into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To