| Noun | 1. | spool - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be woundfilature - a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread shuttle - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads winder - mechanical device around which something can be wound | |
| Verb | 1. | spool - transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storagecomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures transfer - move from one place to another; "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital" | |
| 2. | spool - wind onto a spool or a reelwrap, twine, wind, roll - wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" cheese - wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn" | |