Spools
[spu:lz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of spools of thread, indicates some long and arduous tasks, but which when completed will meet your most sanguine expectations. If they are empty, there will be disappointments for you.
Checker: Norris
Examples
- To contemplate the dynamo with its clumsy, enormous spools, it suggests to the imagination of the average observer the gigantic toy of some Brobdingnagian boy--but the dynamo is no toy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Well, never mind; I'll look your box over,--thimble, wax, two spools, scissors, knife, tape-needle; all right,--put it in here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Norris