Usually means: Storage for thread, wire, cable.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spool: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spool, spool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spool, spool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spool: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spool, spool: Wordnik
  7. spool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spool: Wiktionary
  9. spool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spool: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spool: Dictionary.com
  13. spool: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spool: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spool (software company), Spool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spool: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spool: Rhymezone
  19. Spool: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spool: Free Dictionary
  22. spool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spool: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. spool: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPOOL, Spool, spool: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. spool: CCI Computer
  3. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. spool: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Spool: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. spool: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPOOL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spool: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Paper Making (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
noun:  (aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
noun:  (computing) A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.
noun:  (West Yorkshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
verb:  To wind on a spool or spools.
verb:  (computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
noun:  A small swimming pool that can be used also as a spa.

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