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Meaning Of Reel
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.