spole

Variant of spool.

spole (plural spoles)

1. The small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.
   • 1789, [Erasmus Darwin], “Canto II”, in The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1791, →OCLC, part II (The Loves of the Plants; 3rd edition), pages 61–62, lines 283–288:

     Firſt vvith nice eye emerging Naiads cull / From leathery pods the vegetable vvool [cotton]; / VVith vviry teeth revolving cards releaſe / The tangled knots, and ſmooth the ravell'd fleece; / […] / Then fly the ſpoles, the rapid axles glovv, / And ſlovvly circumvolves the labouring vvheel belovv.

• poles, olpes, lopes, eslop, LEPOs, Lopes, Poles, slope

From Old Danish spolæ, from Old Norse spóla, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ. Cognate with Swedish spole, German Spule, Dutch spoel.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsboːlə]

spole c (singular definite spolen, plural indefinite spoler)

1. spool
2. coil, reel
3. (electronics) inductor

From the noun above.

spole (imperative spol, infinitive at spole, present tense spoler, past tense spolede, perfect tense spolet)

1. (uncommon) to wind (something)

   Coordinate term: vinde

2. to rewind or fast forward a tape etc.
   1. (figurative) to rewind, jump in time (to a time in the past)

• spoling
• tilbagespoling

• “spole” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “spole” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Irish spóla (“cut of meat, joint of meat”), from Scots spaul (“limb, shoulder”).

spole

1. Of pork.
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Spole,

     Of Pork.

spole f

1. plural of spola

• spelo, spelò

spole (imperative spol, present tense spoler, passive spoles, simple past spolet or spolte, past participle spolet or spolt, present participle spolende)

1. to wind (something)

   spole av ― to unwind (something)

• “spole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

spole (Cyrillic spelling споле)

1. vocative singular of spol

From Old Norse spóla, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspuːlɛ/

spole c

1. spool
2. coil, reel
3. (electronics) inductor

• (coil): rulle, vinda
• (inductor): drossel, induktor, solenoid

• spole in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• spole in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• spole in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)