Spool v.

rare. [f. SPOOL sb.¹ Cf. Du. spoelen, LG. spôlen, G. spulen.] a. intr. To wind spools. b. trans. To wind (thread) on spools. Hence Spooled ppl. a.

1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 337. A weaver will say that his worke is to make a web…, and not to spoole, winde quils,… or raise and let fall the weights.

1623.  in Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll., I. 94. Some of them make … their workfolkes … spoole their chaines, twist their list.

1845.  S. Judd, Margaret, II. ix. (1871), 271. I spooled on the doorstone for ma.

1862.  Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 3885, Thrown silks, gum and soft-dyed and spooled.