桛

桛 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木卜一卜 (DYMY), composition ⿰木𠧗)

1. reel, hank, skein, reeled thread

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 526, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14796
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1197, character 8
• Unihan data for U+685B

A 国(こく)字(じ) (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).^[1]

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 綛 (“reel”)

• Kun: かせ (kase, 桛)、かせい (kasei, 桛)^{←かせひ (kasefi, 桛, historical)}

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology completed in 759.^[2]

• (Tokyo) かせ [káꜜsè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠se̞]

桛(かせ) • (kase) 

1. any of various kinds of reel, a tool for winding yarn:
   1. [from 759] a niddy-noddy

      Synonym: 桛木 (kasegi)

      Traditional Japanese niddy-noddies are X-shaped or H-shaped. The H shape is similar to European niddy-noddies.

   2. [from 1712] a swift
   3. a spinner's weasel
   4. a wrap reel

      Synonym: (applies to the above three free-standing types of reel) 桛車 (kaseguruma)

2. [from 1360s] a drying rack for cleaning rags
3. [from mid 1600s] a stick with a branch or crotch towards the end, used to prop something up to prevent it falling, or to help lift something up

   Synonym: 桛木 (kasegi)

4. [from 1687] clipping of 桛糸 (kaseito): a skein of reeled thread
5. [from 1712] clipping of 桛車 (kaseguruma): a swift, a skein-winder: a rotating tool for winding thread into skeins or winding it onto reels
6. [from 1574] 綛: (archaic) a traditional Japanese unit of length for yarn or thread, roughly 768 meters for cotton thread, or 512 meters for woolen yarn

The appropriate English translation depends on the shape and size of the device: if handheld, this is probably a niddy-noddy; if free-standing, this is probably a swift (a simple kind of freestanding reel), spinner's weasel (with a geared mechanism for counting revolutions), or a wrap reel (with a counter and additional mechanisms for standardizing the tension).

• 桛(かせ)糸(いと) (kaseito, “reeled thread”)
• 桛(かせ)木(ぎ) (kasegi, “a niddy-noddy”)
• 桛車(かせぐるま) (kaseguruma, “a swift, a skein winder”)
• 苧桛(おがせ) (ogase)

• 枠(わく) (waku, “rim; frame”)