What is another word for spool?

Pronunciation: [spˈuːl] (IPA)

Spool is a noun that refers to a cylindrical device that is used for winding or unwinding textiles, wire, thread, film, or tape. It is also a verb that means to wind or unwind thread or film from a spool. However, there are several synonyms for the word spool that can be used interchangeably. These include reel, bobbin, spindles, drum, and barrel. A reel is a circular object used for winding or unwinding line, tape, or wire. A bobbin is a spool or reel that holds thread or yarn. Spindle refers to a rod or pin used to twist or spin fiber. A drum or barrel is a cylindrical container that is hollow.

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    • Noun, singular or mass
      roll.
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Usage examples for Spool

In fact, when she made some bead aprons for me, she rejected my spool of cotton and chose her own, twisted between thumb and finger.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
By this time the whole structure of the derrick was rocking to the mad gyrations of the bull wheel; the giant spool was spinning with a speed that threatened to send it flying, like the fragments of a bursting bomb, but the youth understood dimly the danger of stopping it too suddenly-to fetch up that plunging weight at the cable end might snap the line, collapse the derrick, "jim" the well.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
He gave a quick spurt that brought the line humming from its spool.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin

Famous quotes with Spool

  • I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
    Neal Stephenson
  • My experience of the original Edison phonograph goes back to the period when it was first introduced into this country. In fact, I have good reason to believe that I was among the very first persons in London to make a vocal record, though I never received a copy of it, and if I did it got lost long ago. It must have been in 1881 or 1882, and the place where the deed was done was on the first floor of a shop in Hatton Garden, where I had been invited to listen to the wonderful new invention. To begin with, I heard pieces both in song and speech produced by the friction of a needle against a revolving cylinder, or spool, fixed in what looked like a musical box. It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc. Recording for that primitive machine was a comparatively simple matter. I had to keep my mouth about six inches away from the horn and remember not to make my voice too loud if I wanted anything approximating to a clear reproduction; that was all. When it was played over to me and I heard my own voice for the first time, one or two friends who were present said that it sounded rather like mine; others declared that they would never have recognised it. I daresay both opinions were correct.
    Herman Klein

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