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spooler

noun

Etymology

From spool + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)pel-✻
  2. derived from *spōlǭ✻
  3. derived from *spōla✻
  4. derived from spoele
  5. derived from spole
  6. inherited from spole
  7. suffixed as spooler — “spool + er”

Definitions

  1. A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.

    • She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]
    • In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]

  2. A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).

    • The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spooler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA