reel /ˈri(ə)l/
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Reel n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English “country dance,” or contradance (contredanse). --Bartlett.
Reel n.
1. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
2. A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
3. Agric. A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.
Reel v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled p. pr. & vb. n. Reeling. ]
1. To roll. [Obs.]
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel. --Spenser.
2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
Reel v. i.
1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. --Ps. cvii. 27.
He, with heavy fumes oppressed,
Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. --Pope.
The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. --Macaulay.
2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. --Hawthorne.
Reel n. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
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reel
n 1: a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be
projected by a movie projector
2: music composed for dancing a reel
3: winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle;
attached to a fishing rod
4: a winder around which thread or tape or film or other
flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool]
5: a lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular
moves and gliding steps [syn: Scottish reel]
6: an American country dance which starts with the couples
facing each other in two lines [syn: Virginia reel]
v 1: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken
man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, keel, lurch,
swag, careen]
2: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The
dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
[syn: spin, spin around, whirl, gyrate]
3: wind onto or off a reel