rare. [irreg. f. SPREAD v. 8 b.] = SPREAD sb. 7.
1765. Weekly Amusement, 27 July, 475/2. Without a spreadation, as the ladies call it, people would really eat like nobody.
1810. Splendid Follies, III. 26. They returned to the Bear, where they found a spreadation of sandwiches, fruit, jelly and cyder.
1884. Jean Middlemass, Poisoned Arrows, III. xvii. 193. Have all that absurd spreadation taken away,… and a luncheon as like every day as possible, got ready at once.
