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What is the verb for spools?

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spool
  1. To wind on a spool or spools.
  2. (computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
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  4. Examples:
    1. “I pulled on the vine, but it was slippery, forcing me to spool it around my hand to get a better grip.”
      “The directory is used to spool the files waiting to be processed.”
spooling
spools
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spool
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spooled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of spool
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I jammed the throttles up, but the engines barely spooled up before I throttled back per my director's signal.”
      “The helicopter rattled a bit, the engine spooled back up, and Nr rapidly rose to 100 percent.”
      “The engines spooled down, because we had to shut them down in flight, to minimize the counterrotation induced by the torque on the rotor head.”
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