Spool
[spuːl] or [spʊl]
Definition
(verb.) wind onto a spool or a reel.
(verb.) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage.
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Definition
(n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
(v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
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Definition
n. a hollow cylinder for winding yarn &c. upon.—v.t. to wind on spools.
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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.
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Examples
- Tried a 6-ohm spool add a 200-ohm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The current passes from one binding post and its connecting wire, through the wire on the spool, and thence to the other connecting wire and binding post. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Put a coil of wire over the end of rod X and passed the ends of spool through galvanometer without affecting it in any way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A spool containing thread coated with shoemakers’ wax is carried by the horn, and the thread, with its wax kept soft by a lamp, runs up the inside of the horn to the whirl. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Professor Henry invents the Spool Electro Magnet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The traveller guides the thread on to the spool. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A friction pad was also placed between the cloth seam and the spool, to prevent the thread from kinking or twisting under the point of the descending needle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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.
- After the yarn is finally spooled it is found that its surface is still rough and covered with fuzz. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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