spatula : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spatula	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spatula
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spatula n a turner with a narrow flexible blade a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spatula \Spat"u*la\ (?; 135), n. [L. spatula, spathula, dim. of spatha a spatula: F. spatule. See {Spade} for digging.] 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}.