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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet Spatula
n 1: a turner with a narrow flexible blade
2: a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread
soft substances

Moby Dictionary
air brush , art paper , brush , camera lucida , camera obscura , canvas ,
chalk , charcoal , chisel , crayon , drawing paper , drawing pencil ,
drier , easel , fixative , ground , lay figure , mallet , maulstick ,
medium , modeling clay , paint , paintbrush , palette , palette knife ,
pastel , pencil , pigments , point , scratchboard , siccative ,
sketchbook , sketchpad , solder , soldering iron , spray gun , stump ,
varnish