A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

(Canada, US) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.

(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.

(entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

(transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.

(transitive) To strike with a spatula.