Category:Reel

Reel (rl), n. Etym: [gael. righil.]

Defn: 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 Reel, n. Etym: [as. kre: cf. Icel. kr a weaver's reed or sley.]

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. Mcelrath.

3. (agric.)

Defn: 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. Knight.

Reel Reel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (rld); 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 Reel, v. i. Etym: [cf. Sw. ragla. See 2d reel.]

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. Macualay.

2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

Reel Reel, n.

Defn: the act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak.