In a basket about 20 feet in the air, James DeMattia guides the cable from a giant spool into a plastic tube that runs between telephone poles and around the corner, where another crew pulls it through.

The giant spools of lime-green flowers rose more than two feet over soft mounds of blue-gray leaves.

A giant spool of enamel-coated wire brought $25.

The amphibians would tower over traffic from a height of more than 20 feet, from atop giant spools of thread.

Khader, who agrees with this assessment, rose to take me down the stairs and past the giant spools of wire crowding the sidewalk beneath his office.

Other baskets held giant spools of linen thread.

Converted for use after retirement from other duties, the submarines' special equipment includes thrusters to keep them poised above their target and giant spools carrying miles of cable.

INCH by inch, the black-coated wire rolls off a giant wooden spool, snakes up a string of utility poles and crosses above the traffic island on Main Street.

To do that, they help themselves to snippings from giant spools of yarn.

On its next visit, the robot carried hollow steel conduits less than an inch in diameter: they unwound from giant spools above ground.