spool

[US]/spuːl/
[UK]/spʊl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. wind or unwind onto a spool
n. a cylindrical device used for winding and unwinding thread

Phrases & Collocations

thread spool

empty spool

spool holder

spooling machine

valve spool

spool valve

Example Sentences

a narrow spool bed.

spools of electrical cable.

The film is spooled for use.

the plastic reel allows the line to run free as it spools out.

a jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up .

he was trying to spool his tapes back into the cassettes with a pencil eraser.

users can set which folder they wish to spool files to.

A spool of slightly less than 100 feet of number 17 Heavy Formvar wire was required for the secondary winding.

It required three spools, each containing approximately 900 feet of number 27 Heavy Formvar wire for the primary sections.

The three wires were fed from the three spools and wound as one wire; thus comprising the trifilar terminology.

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