Reel

[riːl] or [ril]

Definition

(noun.) a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps.

(noun.) winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod.

(noun.) a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.

(noun.) music composed for dancing a reel.

(verb.) wind onto or off a reel.

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Definition

(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.) To roll.

(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

Typist: Ruben

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Totter, stagger, falter.

Typed by Amalia

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Totter, stagger, falter

ANT:Stand_firm, stand_steady

Inputed by Eleanor

Definition

v.i. to stagger: to vacillate.—n. giddiness.—adv. Reel′-rall (Scot.) topsy-turvy.

n. a rolling or turning frame for winding yarn &c.—v.t. to wind on a reel.—adj. Reel′able capable of being reeled.—ns. Reel′-click an attachment to an angler's reel which checks the line from running out too freely; Reel′-cott′on sewing cotton thread wound on reels or spools; Reel′er one who reels: the grasshopper-warbler; Reel′-hold′er a rotatory frame to hold spools or reels of thread used in sewing: one of the watch in a man-of-war who hauls in the line when the log is heaved to ascertain the ship's speed; Reel′ing-machine′ a machine for winding thread on spools or reels: a machine which winds into hanks the cotton yarn received from the bobbins of the spinning-frames; Reel′-line a fishing-line used on a reel by anglers esp. the part reeled as distinguished from that cast; Reel′-plate the metal plate of a fishing-reel that fits into the reel-seat; Reel′-seat the groove on an angler's rod which receives the reel.—Reel off to give out with rapidity or fluency.

n. a lively Scottish dance for two couples or more its music generally written in common time of four crotchets in a measure but sometimes in jig time of six quavers: music for such a dance.—v.i. to dance a reel.

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