Meaning & use
spooled
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Wound onto a cylindrical device, or temporarily stored data for sequential processing, such as sending it to a printer.
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She spooled the thread neatly before putting it away in the sewing box.
The documents were spooled to the printer queue and printed one after another.
A note on using this word
The computing sense of "spooled" comes from the acronym SPOOL (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line), coined in early mainframe computing.
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Words with an opposite meaning
unspooled
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