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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

... fastened at start with a knot or knot and back stitch and finished with two or three back stitches. The length of thread may be broken or cut from the spool, but should always be cut from the work. Breaking weakens the fastening and biting off soils delicate work with the moisture from the breath, to say nothing of the injury to the teeth. Basting for large work should usually be done with the ...

— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson

... the use of that instrument, may be pursued, as follows: Fasten the photograph to a board, mark the space at the top, bottom and sides into one-quarter inch divisions, and drive sharp pointed pins in each of the division marks. Taking a spool of white thread run it across vertically and horizontally from each pin to the one opposite, and you will then have the photograph divided into one-quarter inch squares; then, if your enlargement is to be six times ...

— Crayon Portraiture • Jerome A. Barhydt

... Isabella, "because he brings you meat to eat; and Mr. Spool, because he keeps the thread store. Thank you for putting me in, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... any questions, she went for the thread, and very soon made her appearance at the window with one spool in her arms, and then ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various

... be treated untruthfully. To this end various kinds of hand work and scientific study have been useful. It is impossible for the child to cheat the tools of the workshop or his instruments of precision; it is impossible to make a spool of thread do the work of two or three; or one cannot make the paint go farther by applying the brush faster. It is concrete reality that can teach the imaginative child reality; in the things he learns from books there is no check upon the imagined and ...

— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg

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