Reel

·vt To Roll.

II. Reel ·vt To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

III. Reel ·vi To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

IV. Reel ·noun The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

V. Reel ·vi To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to Stagger.

VI. Reel ·noun A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance;

— often called Scotch reel.

VII. Reel ·noun 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.

VIII. Reel ·noun 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.

IX. Reel ·noun 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.