vbl. sb. Also 6 spoul-, 6–7 spol-, 7 spoyl-. [f. SPOOL v.] The action or employment of winding spools.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 167. The Accompts whereof declare the charges in the … spoolinge, warpinge, quillinge,… and the like.
1738. Gentl. Mag., VIII. 658. They … demanded a Note … that they would for ever forward give 15d. a Yard for Weaving and 1s. for Spooling.
1891. Miss Dowie, Girl in Karp., 232. All the … shearing, washing, carding, spinning and spooling.
b. attrib., as spooling-machine, † -turn, -wheel.
c. 1564. in Noake, Worcest. Relics (1877), 10. A spynynge turne and a spolynge turne xij d. Ibid., 12. ij spyninge tournes, a spoulinge tourne.
1598. Florio, Spola,… a weauers role, spoling wheele or quill turne.
1617. Minsheu, Ductor, A Quil-turne, that turnes the quilles, or spoyling Wheele.
1648. Hexham, II. Een Garen-kroone,… a Spoling-wheele.
1841. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 62. The spooling machine is cited as superior to that used in England.
1862. Times, 27 March, 6/5. A beautiful automatic spooling machine by Brookes, showing the winding of the cotton thread into bobbins.
