muck spreader

noun

A piece of farm machinery, usually towed behind a tractor, used to spray liquified manure on fields.

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Meanings

nounmuck spreader (plural muck spreaders)

plural muck spreaders

  1. A piece of farm machinery, usually towed behind a tractor, used to spray liquified manure on fields.

    The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!

    1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
honey wagon

Translations

Danish gyllespreder
  • gyllesprederfarm machinery
Polish roztrząsacz, rozrzutnik
  • roztrząsaczfarm machinery
  • rozrzutnikfarm machinery
Cite this entry
APA

muck spreader. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muck%20spreader

MLA

“muck spreader.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muck%20spreader. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muck spreader,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muck%20spreader.

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