cotton reel

It did indeed look like a cotton reel, eight feet in diameter.

The pots and containers were made from cotton reels.

When I get back I will make a little model of her for all the chicks and pay out cotton reels.

"It's one of those wooden drums used to transport heavy cable - looks like a big cotton reel, doesn't it?"

They used rotary shaft encoders to measure distance along disposable cotton reels.

Dorcas pulled up an empty cotton reel.

Onto one of the trays the children put beads of various sizes, wheels, cotton reels and rods.

The Admiral poked a pencil through the cotton reel, and made the reel spin by patting it.

An advert filmed in Egypt that features thousands of coloured cotton reels tumbling down a pyramid.

Rebus picked it up, found the head resting in an open biscuit tin along with loose dominoes, playing cards, empty cotton reels.

The cotton reels were not actually rolled down the pyramid but was rather a composition of real footage and CGI.

A spool heel is a heel that is wide at the top and bottom and narrower in the middle, so resembling a cotton reel.

Today he sat surrounded by paints and solvents, balls of string, boxes of old cotton reels and electrical parts, but he wasn't working.

The size and shape of a large cotton reel, these little sweet, spiced mutton pies are a golden brown, crispy pastry with a moist, sweet inside.

Oh yes any amount any amount of pots and pans and laces for your boots and, what we call pirins that was cotton reels.

He could turn cramp-bones into chessmen; fashion Roman chariots from old court cards; make spoked wheels out of cotton reels, and bird-cages of old wire.

In the Store, the nomes had made their furniture out of matchboxes and cotton reels; the nomes living Outside didn't even know what furniture was.

Known to philatelists as "cotton reels" because of their resemblance to the labels on spools of thread, the 2-cent stamps, issued in 1851, were among the world's most valuable.

The dinner-table was all covered with the paraphernalia of the woman's trade - with folded garments and tissue wrappers, with pins and cotton reels and needles.

By ensuring that a good variety of the right kind of materials are available, such as cotton reels or cheese boxes for wheels, she can enable any child to pursue a particular interest.

I slipped by more olive groves, scattered masies (farmhouses), fields of peppers and aubergines, and the stubble of cleared wheat bundled up into giant cotton reels.

Here the teacher is working with a slightly older group of children and developing sorting, using a sorting box containing cubes, off-cuts of wood, beads, wheels, cotton reels, rods, etc.

"We are looking," Mr Prentice said, clasping his bony knees and vibrating with the taxi, "for a little roll of film - probably a good deal smaller than a cotton reel.

She opened each of the compartments in turn, finding cotton reels, needles, pins, fragments of lace and ribbon, a card of old-fashioned silver poppers and a box of assorted buttons.

Paint can be applied with: combs, flat lolly sticks, toothbrushes, foam/wool rollers, feathers, twigs, other natural materials, rolling pins wrapped with string or wool or with cotton reel tracks.