📖 Definitions of "Reel"
noun
- 1
A shaky or unsteady gait.
- 2
A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- 3
A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
"a garden reel"
- 4
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.
verb
- 1
To wind on a reel.
- 2
To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- 3
To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
"He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package."
- 4
To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
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