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spool

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1. spool - Noun

2. spool - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed. Andy Partridge

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

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of. Brenna Yovanoff

Leave the spool to the artisan. Corsican Proverb

A hunched, hooded woman sits between them, forming a triangle, and the spool end of this string. Source: Internet

An anti-reverse lever prevented the crank handle from rotating while a fish was pulling line from the spool. Source: Internet

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