A reel is a cylinder that can be wound with flexible material like film or fishing line. If you found dozens of reels of old home movies in your grandparents' attic, you'd search for a projector.
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called
Noun
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
Noun
a lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
Noun
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
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
Verb
walk as if unable to control one''s movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
Verb
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one''s own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
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.
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And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.2.
Reel
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.
The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves.2.
In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.
Reel
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called
A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound;
To roll.
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
The act or motion of reeling or staggering;
Usage Examples
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
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