Synonyms:
spatula
Meaning: a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
Synonyms:
spatula
Meaning: a turner with a narrow flexible blade
Usage examples
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.