`spool'

[Larry Trask]

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, maher, johnpeter wrote:

> 4. Birch bark, everyone knows, was used for canoes by N. American
> Indians; the large birch in question was nearly exterminate by
> Europeans, who used the wood for industrially made thread spools. [I
> have forgotten the British term for the latter.]

It's `reel', generally confined in the US to things around which films,
tapes and fishing lines are wound.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk