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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

... thought Christie, longing to cry out: "No, no; send the girl away and let me be all in all to you." But she only turned up the lamp and pretended to be looking for a spool, while her heart ached and her eyes ...

— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

... reel, and holding it high up, by the projecting handle-ends of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... are several methods for this, the following being that preferred and generally used by the writer: Leave a spare end of thread, sufficient for the number of stitches you wish to cast on, lying toward the left, the spool or ball from which the working-thread is drawn being at the right. Lay the thread between the little finger and the third of the left hand; bring the working-thread across the palm of the hand, around the thumb and back between the forefinger and second finger; bend the forefinger over ...

— Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet • Anonymous

... pal had missed, then he realized what Scotty had done. The spear shaft was attached to a long wire leader, and the leader to a safety line coiled around a spool just ahead of the pistol grip. Scotty had deliberately fired ahead of the propeller, knowing that the wire leader would be caught and ...

— The Wailing Octopus • Harold Leland Goodwin

... pay ten cents a spool," said the customer, "and I suppose that's what it is here. If it's any more I can stop in the next time I pass. That is, unless you can find out ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store • Laura Lee Hope

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