spatulate
verb1
To treat or mix with a spatula.
2
To incise the end of (a pliable cylindrical structure) such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.
- Related terms
- spatula
spatulate
adjUK /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/
1
Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
- “I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting. Of course, it is obvious that it is music. You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions?[…]”1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
- For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling (so it seemed) and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 804:
- Derived terms
- subspatulate