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Reel

noun
1.
A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
2.
Music composed for dancing a reel.
3.
Winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod.
4.
A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound.  Synonyms: bobbin, spool.
5.
A lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps.  Synonym: Scottish reel.
6.
An American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines.  Synonym: Virginia reel.
verb
(past & past part. reeled; pres. part. reeling)
1.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.  Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag.
2.
Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis.  Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl.
3.
Wind onto or off a reel.



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"Reel" Quotes from Famous Books



... trusts for her deliverance to Heaven—that her body may be destroyed—that her soul cannot be harmed. Scarcely are the words uttered than a terrible clangour is heard. The walls of the dungeon seem breaking down, and the ponderous columns reel. The demon statue rises on its throne, and a stream of flame issues from its brow. The doors of the cells burst open, and with the clanking of chains, and other dismal noises, skeleton shapes stalk forth, from them, each with ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... not thinking about you. Cotton, please—a reel of No. 50 white from my chest of drawers. Left hand drawer. Now ...
— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster
... impervious to pathos. The giggles coalesced to a general laugh when the poor old mother, again mopping on the floor, was seen to say, "I hate these mopping mothers. You get took with house-maid's knee in the first reel." ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance: Lifeless is he wha canna feel ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum
... 'lowed and what he didn't 'low was perfectly well known to every darky. For instance, "he didn't 'low no singin' uv week-er-day chunes uv er Sunday," nor "no singin' uv reel chunes" (dance music) at any time; nor did he "'low no sassin' ...
— Diddie, Dumps & Tot - or, Plantation child-life • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle


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