Noun

(en noun)

The act of spreading or something that has been spread.

* Francis Bacon

No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.

An expanse of land.

* Addison

I have got a fine spread of improvable land.

A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.

* 2005 , , 00:11:50:

- Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
- I’m savin’ for a place myself.

A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).

A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.

Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams

An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.

A numerical difference.

(business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.

(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

(finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.

(geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

Noun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce

(UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Alcohol, booze.

*

Maybe you should lay off the sauce .

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

(internet slang) used when requesting the source of an image.

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

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* {{quote-book

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Vegetables.

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(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

* Beverly

Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.

(Forby)

(Bartlett)