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n. A small implement having a broad, flat, flexible blade that is used to mix, spread, or lift material.

n. A device, such as a small wooden paddle, used to press down the tongue during an examination of the mouth or throat.

n. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

n. A palette knife.

n. A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

n. An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under palette.

n. A broad flat blade or strip of metal or wood, with unsharpened edges and a commonly rounded outer end (which may be spoon-shaped), and a handle: used for spreading, smoothing, scraping up, or stirring substances, comminuting powders, etc.

n. A genus of Anatinæ, having the bill much longer than the head or tarsus, twice as wide at the end as at the base, there broadly rounded and spoon-shaped, with narrow prominent nail and numerous protrusive lamellæ; the shoveler-ducks or souchets.

n. a turner with a narrow flexible blade

n. a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances

"#8: Keep in mind that a spatula is not an apple press."

turner    food turner   

spatula mallei   

palette   

turner   

chopstick    tongs    wok    ingot    ladle    scraper    eraser    candlestick    casters    spoon