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Definition of Reel

Reel A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. 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. 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. 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. To roll. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Related Definitions: Act, Also, An, And, Angler, Are, Arms, As, Axis, Be, By, Called, Circuit, Connected, Consisting, Cotton, Cut, Dance, Device, Drunken, For, Frame, From, Garden, Giddy, Grain, Harvesting, Have, Holding, Horizontal, In, Incline, Into, Is, It, Kind, Knives, Like, Linen, Lively, Log, Machine, Measured, Motion, Music, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Other, Position, Radial, Reel, Reeling, Roll, Scotch, Seamen, Sensation, Side, Spool, Stagger, Staggering, The, Thirty, Thread, To, Turning, Upon, Used, Walking, Which, Whirling, Wind, With, Worsted, Wound, Yarn

Reel Translations reel in German is Band, Bandrolle, Bandspule reel in Italian is fettuccia, bobina

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