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Spool

noun

A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound. Synonyms: bobbin, reel.

verb

(past & past part. spooled; pres. part. spooling)

Transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage.

Wind onto a spool or a reel.

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"Spool" Quotes from Famous Books

... either raised up above the level of the first row or dropped beneath it. Sitting at the tied end her mother would throw a little wooden boat skimming between the two sets of threads, from one side to the other, the boat being laden with a spool of yarn and dragging a thread behind it. When the boat reached the other side, the thread would be drawn tight. Then with the foot in a strap the loose bar would be drawn down, taking one set of threads with it, and there would be the boat's thread caught as in a trap. Then the boat would come ...

— The Iron Star - And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages • John Preston True

... a room for the use of the daguerreotypist of the community; farther on to the right is a large carpenter's shop, and to the left are barns, stables, the silk-dye house, and a small factory where the children of the community at odd hours make boxes for the spool silk produced here. There is also a large and ...

— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff

... optimistic propaganda. Perfectly normal—when one found only three customers in a large department store! Perfectly normal—when the big steamship offices presented in their windows bare blue seas which had once been charted with the going and coming of German ships! Perfectly normal—when the spool of the killed and wounded rolled out by yards like that of a ticker on a busy day on the Stock Exchange! Perfectly normal—when women tried to smile in the streets with eyes which had ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... me Lisbeth Longfrock, and I am from Peerout Castle. Mother sent me here with the woolen yarn she has spun for you. She told me to say that she could not come with it before, for she did not get the last spool wound until ...

— Lisbeth Longfrock • Hans Aanrud

... of the oddest stories—odd only because it is like myself. Every character creates it own stories; we are like spools, and each spool fills itself up with a different-coloured thread. The story, such as it is, began one evening in Victoria Street at the end of a long day's work. A letter began it. She wrote asking me to dine with her, and her letter was most ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

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