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REELING
Verb
reeling
present participle of reel
Noun
reeling (plural reelings)
The motion of something that reels.
Anagrams
• girleen, leering
Source: Wiktionary
REEL
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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