spoolingn.
a. The action or employment of winding spools.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling round something > on(to) a spool
spooling1969
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 167 The Accompts whereof declare the charges in the..spoolinge, warpinge, quillinge,..and the like.
1738 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 658/1 They..demanded a Note..that they would for ever forward give 15d. a Yard for Weaving and 1s. for Spooling.
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 232 All the..shearing, washing, carding, spinning and spooling.
1969 Listener 13 Feb. 193/3 There is no lacing or spooling. The films in the cassette are sealed.
1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 209/1 Studies show that this method of spooling between flanges can be used on lines and risers.
b. attributive, as spooling-machine, †spooling-turn, spooling-wheel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > winding on spool or bobbin
spooling-machinec1564
quillinga1641
bobbining1883
c1564 in J. Noake Worcs. Relics (1877) 10 A spynynge turne and a spolynge turne xij d.
c1564 in J. Noake Worcs. Relics (1877) 12 ij spyninge tournes, a spoulinge tourne.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Spola,..a weauers role, spoling wheele or quill turne.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Quil-turne That turnes the quilles, or spoyling Wheele.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Garen-kroone, a Spoling-wheele.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 62 The spooling machine is cited as superior to that used in England.
1862 Times 27 Mar. A beautiful automatic spooling machine by Brookes.
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Computing. The action or process of spooling data (cf. spool v. Additions). Also: a facility that facilitates this.
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1967 J. Golden IBM 360 Programming & Computing 324 The technique of performing peripheral operations on the same system concurrently with running the major programs is called spooling.
1985 Which Computer? Apr. 4 (advt.) Each PC can tap network resources including..system printers with spooling.
2002 Human Movement Sci. 21 466 Variations in time sometimes occurred due to the spooling process of data to the hard disk of the PC.
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