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Spatula   /spˈætʃʊlə/   Listen
Spatula

noun
1.
A turner with a narrow flexible blade.
2.
A hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances.



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"Spatula" Quotes from Famous Books



... labour-saving arts of modern pharmacy. It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. To this day pills are made behind its tall prescription desk—pills rolled out on its own pill-tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill-boxes. The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged-plumed, hilarious children play and ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... the source of heat, but one tool is required for ordinary brazing operations, this being a spatula formed by flattening one end of a quarter-inch steel rod. The spatula is used for placing the brazing metal on the work and for handling the flux that is required in this work as in all ...
— Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting • Harold P. Manly


Words linked to "Spatula" :   handle, blade, putty knife, turner, slice, palette knife, handgrip, hold, hand tool, grip, food turner


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