spool-stand

Go farther: a case of toys: harmless trifles enough, arrests you -- cannon a finger long, batteries the size of a lady's spool-stand, but the reduced models of death-dealing engines whose power of wholesale slaughter may one day revolutionize the codes of nations and abolish warfare.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various