Definitions for spool

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IPA: /spul/

Spool is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in spool (loops).

Definitions for spool

noun

1. any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
2. a small cylindrical piece of wood or other material on which yarn is wound in spinning, for use in weaving; a bobbin.
3. a small cylinder of wood or other material on which thread, wire, or tape is wound, typically expanded or with a rim at each end and having a hole lengthwise through the center.
4. the material or quantity of material wound on such a device.
5. Angling. the cylindrical drum in a reel that bears the line.

verb (used with object)

1. to wind on a spool.
2. to unwind from a spool (usually followed by off or out).
3. Computers. to operate (an input/output device) by using buffers in main and secondary storage.

verb (used without object)

1. to wind.
2. to unwind.

Origin of spool

1275-1325; Middle English spole Middle Dutch spoele or Middle Low German spōle; cognate with German Spule

Examples for spool

Oh, look at the kitten chasing the spool, all in electric lights!

Judith came back with the spool and a yellow envelope which she had signed for.

A searchlight was on a tripod at the center, and a spool of electric cable.

There he lies in fetal position, reeling from thoughts of the atrocities he has committed, which spool endlessly in his mind.

The spool itself was another thing Chloe had helped him with.

Yes, there was a spool among other odds and ends in a Japanese boat-basket.

Marcus got ready, moving to the front of the machine, feeling the spool in his pocket.

Put a spool over the nail which was your fulcrum in the first two experiments.

Pass the string through the handle of the pail and up over the spool (Fig. 33).

Guide it to its place with the thumb, and run it from side to side of the reel like cotton on a spool.