Spreader
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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)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...
, 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)Spreader (sailboat)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...
, a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast. - Spreader barSpreader barA spreader bar is an article of bondage equipment consisting of a metal or wooden bar, with attachment points for bondage cuffs at each end, which can be fastened to wrists, ankles or knees to hold them apart...
, a BDSM bondage device. - Spreader (lifting), a lifting device used to distribute forces appropriately for structural or interference reasons.
- Manure spreaderManure spreaderA manure spreader or muck spreader or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer. A typical manure spreader consists of a trailer towed behind a tractor with a rotating mechanism driven by the tractor's power take off...
, an agricultural machinery designed to spread manure. - Spreader (container)Spreader (container)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 at any other machinery to lift...
, often "spreader bar", device to attach transport containers to cranes