Reel
Definition of Reel
Pronunciation: rēl | n. | 1. | A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; - often called Scotch reel. | | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To roll. | | 2. | To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. | | v. i. | 1. | To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. | | 2. | To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. | | n. | 1. | The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. |
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