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Reel   /ril/   Listen
noun
Reel  n.  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).


Reel  n.  
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.
3.
(Agric.) 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.


Reel  n.  The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.


verb
Reel  v. t.  (past & past part. reeled; pres. part. reeling)  
1.
To roll. (Obs.) "And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel."
2.
To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.


Reel  v. i.  
1.
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. "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.
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. "In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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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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