title: Spreader
text: # Spreader
  
  Spreader may 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 (mining), a heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering
  