spole

Variant of spool.

spole (plural spoles)

1. The small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.

• 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

Borrowed from Irish spól (“to cut meat into joints”).

spole

1. To cut 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.

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)