spooln.1
/spuːl/, U.S. /spul/ 1.
a. A small cylindrical piece of wood or other material on which thread is wound as it is spun, esp. for use in weaving; a bobbin.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > winding on spool or bobbin > spool or bobbin
spoolc1325
pirn1440
rocket1440
quillc1450
bobbin1530
reed1530
spill1594
twill1664
ratchet1728
pirnie1776
runner1784
reel1785
spindle1837
α.
β. 1483 Cath. Angl. 357/1 A Spule, panus.1509 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 122 The armes of the webstaris, viz. thair signe of the spule to be vmaist in ilk baner.a1568 R. Semple in Bannatyne MS. (Hunterian Club) 356 Weill wrocht in the lwmis with wobster gwmis, Bayth thik and nymmill gais the spwle.1842 Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. 40 Curlers, gae hame..To your pens, to your spules, or your thummills.1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 226/2 A spule is a pirn for yarn or a pirn of yarn. Besides, the copes of yarn used in thread-making are called spules.γ. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 87 Patient art..has a spiral engine form'd, Which, on an hundred spoles, an hundred threads..twines..; easy-tended work.1772 in 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 161 A Machine..by which..a great number of Threads may be spun at one and the same time on a number of Spoals.1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. ii. 103 Then fly the spoles, the rapid axles glow.1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 412 [article Spinner] As the threads become twisted by..a tall wheel which carries round the ‘spole’.δ. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 346 Spoil, the weaver's quill.c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 157 Les tremes, the spoles.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 613 Spola, a Quyl, or a Spole.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 470 Spole, or scytyl, webstarys instrument,..spolia, panulea.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274 Spole, a wevers instrument.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. xxix. 228 She is skilful in such Works,..never ceasing to handle small Spindles or Spooles.
1681 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1881) II. 173 She..rose up, went to the wheel.., winded half-a-score spooles.
1783 Oldham & Prestwidge Specif. Patent 1368 A sliding frame which moves the bobbins..upon the spindles to distribute the yarn equally upon the spools.
1809 M. Edgeworth Dun in Tales Fashionable Life II. 301 He continued to throw the shuttle, whilst his little boy and his wife by turns wound for him on the spools.
1842 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 825/1 The yarn destined for the warp is wound off upon little spools of wood called bobbins.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 274/2 Here the slivers are run side by side upon a wooden spool or bobbin.
b. In figurative uses.
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?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. C4v The wheeling of the Spheares..Winde vp thy lifes-Threed on the Spowle of Yeares.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 170 Short is the thread on life's spool that is mine.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. ii. 76 That's a spool to wind a speech on. Abuses is the very word.
1896 C. K. Paul tr. J.-K. Huysman En Route v. 65 The first comer who will wind about me his spool of commonplaces.
c. A small shaped cylinder of wood on which sewing-thread is wound; a reel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > winding on spool or bobbin > spool or bobbin > specific
tavell1523
pirn1829
spool1852
token1878
mother-in-babe1919
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xx She tangled, broke, or dirtied her thread, or, with a sly movement, would throw a spool away altogether.
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 260 The needle..carries a continuous thread wound off a reel or spool.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 160 The spool..holds 400 yards of good cotton. It is a good article, and people can pay for it.
d. Any cylinder on which cord, wire, tape, etc., is wound for convenience or for a special purpose.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > other tools and equipment
pollhache1324
poleaxe1356
muckrake1366
pestlea1382
botea1450
staff1459
press-board1558
reel1593
water crane1658
lathekin1659
tower1662
dressing hook1683
liner1683
hovel1686
flax-brake1688
nipper1688
horse1728
tap1797
feather-stick1824
bow1839
safety belt1840
economizer1841
throttle damper1849
cleat1854
leg brace1857
bark-peeler1862
pugging screw1862
nail driver1863
spool1864
turntable1865
ovate1872
tension bar1879
icebreaker1881
spreader1881
toucher1881
window pole1888
mushroom head1890
rat1894
slackline1896
auger1897
latch hook1900
thimble1901
horse1904
pipe jack1909
mulcher1910
hand plate1911
splashguard1917
cheese-cutter1927
airbrasive1945
impactor1945
fogger1946
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > for performing specific processes > for winding
rice1611
whare1688
pirn1750
spool1864
1864 Reader 5 Oct. 483/2 It also actuates the break-piece,..thereby producing electric induction in the outer coils of the two pairs of spools alternately.
1883 Cent. Mag. July 381 Reeling up his line to the snell of the hook, and with his thumb on the spool of the reel.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 76 We want a film thin enough to be used on spools.
1936 Discovery Aug. 238/2 The film..is mounted in a supply spool on the top part of the camera. It is carried around guide spools and across the focal plane to the take-up spool.
1955 R. P. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy xviii. 186 Two spools are attached in a light-tight box to the top of the instrument.
1967 Tape Recording Mag. July 260/1 The..conventional, spool-to-spool machines.
1977 W. Marshall Thin Air v. 58 Feiffer watched the twin spools on the tape recorder winding in Number Two's words.
2. A mesh-pin used in net-making.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > netting > pin or needle
netting-needle1632
net-pina1652
netting-pin1808
spool1837
battle-twig1942
1837 C. Bathurst Notes on Nets 17 Large meshes may be made on small spools, by giving the twine two or more turns round them.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 72 Spools, being made as broad as the length of the side of the mesh, are of different breadths.
3. The sliding member of a spool valve.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > parts of
shank1660
seat1841
mica flap1906
spool1960
1960 Lee & Blackburn in J. F. Blackburn et al. Fluid Power Control ix. 239 The spool valve must be very accurately made since it depends upon closeness of fit between spool and sleeve to hold the leakage down.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 344/3 In the mid or neutral position of the spool, ports A and B are blocked. The movement of the spool may be manually or electrically controlled.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, as spool-cotton, spool-frame, spool-pin, spool-stand, spool-ticket, spool-wheel.
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1538 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 200 Unum wollenlome cum ryngrathes, warpbarres et spoyle whele.
1845 Glance Interior China 81 The spool-frame..is provided with two long posts, each two feet high, on the top of which is a transverse beam.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 572/1 As it is usual to form a rope of three strands, three spole-frames are combined together in this laying machine.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Spool-stand, a rest or support for bobbins.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3677 Spool cotton, enamelled and six-cord.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5136 Spooltickets.
C2. † spool-knave n. Obsolete (see quot. 16881).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > into ball > appliance for
garnwinc725
yarnwindc725
yarnwindlec1325
garnwindlec1440
yarringle1611
yarndle1682
spool-knave1688
yarnets1808
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 288/2 There is another sort of Spool Knave made of Wood..in which there is holes made..for two, three, four, or more Spools to be wound off into Clews.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 288/2 He beareth Argent, a Spool Knave, with the Spool Pin therein.
spool valve n. a valve in which a shaft with channels in its surface slides inside a sleeve with ports in it, the flow between which depends on the position of the shaft in the sleeve.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others
washer1596
turncock1702
air cock1709
Jack-in-the-box1728
runner1754
stop-valve1829
three-way cock1838
ball valve1839
relief valve1846
poppet valve1851
plunger valve1854
pot-lid1856
reflux valve1857
screw-down1864
mica valve1880
tide flap1884
tube-valve1884
swing-tap1892
relay valve1894
Schrader1895
pilot valve1900
mixer valve1904
spool valve1908
spill valve1922
safety valving1930
three-way1939
1908 R. Peele Compressed Air Plant xx. 248 The throw of the spool valve..is produced indirectly by the introduction of a system of small, auxiliary ports, connecting the ends of the valve chest with the cylinder.
1926 R. M. Evans in J. Roberts Mining Educator I. 618/2 There are two forms..: the air-thrown or spool-valve drill for use with compressed air, and the tappet drill for use with steam.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 82/4 Three hydraulic spool valves were fitted on the side of the trailer. One lifted and lowered the trailer.
1976 D. E. Turnbull Fluid Power Engin. vi. 172 The spool valve was originally developed..more than a century ago when it was used for controlling the flow of steam to steam engine cylinders at the famous Gorton locomotive works in Manchester.
spool-wood n. wood for making spools.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for other specific uses
mazera1200
waywoodware1334
piling1422
tenter-timber1562
pinwood1580
mazer wood1594
stop-rice1653
pudlay1679
puncheon1686
veneer1702
pit-wood1715
broach-wood1835
chipwood1838
matchwood1838
fretwood1881
pulpwood1881
coffin-wood1883
bur1885
spool-wood1895
1895 N. Brit. Daily Mail 4 Oct. 5/2 The barque Assyria, laden with spoolwood and deals.
C3. Designating (an article of) furniture popular in North America during the second half of the 19th cent. and decorated with spool-shaped turnery.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally
standing1444
plush1615
Queen Elizabeth1673
occasional1749
Adametic1774
French-polished1836
upholstered1837
Adamish1838
Chippendale1855
Queen Anne1863
knock-down1875
Wellington chest1880
Adamesque1881
Sheraton1883
Hepplewhite1897
quaint1897
bombé1904
lowboy1915
Jacobean1918
overstuffed1922
spool1928
Williamsburg1931
thermed1952
stackable1958
Scandinavian1959
wall-to-wall1959
Populuxe1986
1928 Johnson & Sironen Man. Furnit. Arts & Crafts i. xiii. 79 The first and most noticeable product of the [powered wood-working] machine was a type [of furniture] made up almost entirely of turned posts, frames, legs and arms and became known as spool furniture.
1931 S. Glaspell Ambrose Holt & Family xxvii. 263 She went up to the bed, a walnut spool bed.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 16 July 10/3 The spool rack..had nice roomy shelves, which were used to store many back copies of the Sun~papers.
1969 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 636 Spool Furniture, an American style, introduced in the 1850s, and based on the use of spool turning on the members of chairs, beds, tables, and wash stands. This form of decoration with its string of spools was an attenuated variation of the more robust bobbin turning..of the mid- and late 17th century.
1974 R. B. Parker God save Child (1975) xxii. 153 There was a spool bed with a gold-patterned spread.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 210/1 Jane Carlyle sitting in her spool chair.
Derivatives
spoolful n. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fusée, a spoole-full, or spindle-full, of thread, yarne, &c.
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† spooln.2
Scottish. Obsolete.
collective. Wooden roofing-shingles. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > piece split off > thin for roofing > collectively
spool1496
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 279 Item,..in part payment of theking of the chapell..with spule, iiij li. xij d.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 302 For theking of a rude of spule thak.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 307 Item, giffin to Johne Lam of Leith, in part of payment of nalis to the spule thak of the werkhous and chapel in the Castel of Edinburgh,..iij li. xij s.
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spoolv.
/spuːl/, U.S. /spul/ 1. intransitive. To wind spools. Also with adverbs and transferred.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (intransitive)] > wind
reelc1400
spool1603
to wind up1631
quill1825
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (intransitive)] > coil round something or itself > coil on spools
spool1603
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 337 A weaver will say that his worke is to make a web.., and not to spoole, winde quils,..or raise and let fall the weights.
1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. ix. 336 I spooled on the door-stone for ma.
1976 S. Brett So Much Blood x. 126 ‘I'll spool through and see if there's anything relevant.’.. Gerald busied himself spooling on and playing snatches of the tape.
1976 B. Lecomber Dead Weight iii. 46 The Boeing's engines spooled up to a keening howl.
1977 Time 10 Jan. 6/1 Poised at the gate. Once more the course spools through the mind. Now the Starter's signal.
1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iv. iv. 433 His fear unraveled itself and then spooled quickly around his winch of a throat.
2. transitive. To wind (thread, film, etc.) on (to) a spool. Also transferred.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > wind > in specific way
reelc1400
conglomerate1623
spool1623
sleavea1628
agglomerate1658
skein1775
hank1818
pirn1818
lease1884
cross-reel1890
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) > coil (something) round or upon itself > on(to) a spool
spool1623
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > wind (film, etc.) on (to) a spool
spool1979
1623 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 94 Some of them make..their workfolkes..spoole their chaines, twist their list.
1979 G. Scott Hot Pursuit ix. 80 I began to spool the film of what had happened through my mind.
1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike x. 116 Shall I spool it [sc. a cassette] back and see if there's something we missed?
Derivatives
spooled adj.
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xx. §3885 Thrown silks, gum and soft-dyed and spooled.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 333/1 Spooled Wire for Tissue Paper Work.
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transitive. Computing. To transfer (data, esp. output data) to a temporary store from which it can be fed to, or accessed by, a peripheral device (typically a printer) that operates while the main system performs other processes.
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1967 [implied in: J. Golden IBM 360 Programming & Computing 324 The technique of performing peripheral operations on the same system concurrently with running the major programs is called spooling. (at spooling n. Additions)].
1971 R. Braden & S. Wolfe Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 88. 1 The jobs are spooled into the operating system and run in their turn, and the printed and/or punched output is returned to the remote terminal.
1984 Today's Computers May 57/2 Multiprocessing will allow a local area networking communications program to run in the background, even as a word processing application runs in the foreground and a file is spooled to the printer.
1989 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 26/4 Printing can be ‘spooled’ and so allow the user to carry on working, without having to wait for the printer to finish before being free to use the screen again.
1993 Macworld Dec. 44/2 PowerBook users on the road can spool documents and have them printed automatically when users reconnect to their printer.
2001 Express (Nexis) 6 May 46 You usually get Spool32 error messages if something is preventing the print job from being spooled correctly.
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spooled adj. Computing (of data) that has been transferred to a temporary store for access by a peripheral device; (of a device) connected to facilitate such a data transfer (rare).
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1970 E. W. Meyer Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 82. 10 We prefer a batch-type system, where a site sends spooled batch of edit requests, gets stuff back, and frees ports.
1975 Input/Output (Infotech State of the Art Rep. No. 22) 290 An attempt was made to read from a spooled card reader.
1996 Macworld (Nexis) June 116 The QMS printers support a third use of a hard drive, as a repository for spooled data on its way from your computer to the printer.
2001 Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 29/3 I have no idea whether Microsoft Publisher has direct links to save or export to *.pdf, but you can create a spooled file that can be converted by Adobe Distiller.
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