REEL

reel, Scottish reel

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

bobbin, spool, reel

(noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

reel

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

reel

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

reel

(noun) music composed for dancing a reel

reel

(verb) wind onto or off a reel

stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen

(verb) walk as if unable to control one’s movements; “The drunken man staggered into the room”

spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate

(verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one’s own axis; “The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

reel (plural reels)

A shaky or unsteady gait.

A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.

A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

(textiles) 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.

(agriculture) 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.

(film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

Synonym: showreel

Verb

reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)

To wind on a reel.

To spin or revolve repeatedly.

To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.

(with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

To make or cause to reel.

To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

To be in shock.

(obsolete) To roll.

Anagrams

• Erle, LREE, leer

Proper noun

Reel (plural Reels)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Reel is the 6399^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5316 individuals. Reel is most common among White (88.24%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Erle, LREE, leer

Source: Wiktionary

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

Definition: 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. 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.)

Definition: 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, 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, 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, n.

Definition: The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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