reel

[Reel]

A reel is a cylinder that can be wound with flexible material like film or fishing line. If you found dozens of reels of old home movies in your grandparents' attic, you'd search for a projector.

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A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

Noun
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

Noun
a lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps

Noun
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

Noun
winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod

Noun
a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector

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Noun
music composed for dancing a reel

Verb
wind onto or off a reel

Verb
walk as if unable to control one''s movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

Verb
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one''s own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"


n.
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
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.

v. t.
To roll.

v. t.
To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

v. i.
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

v. i.
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

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


Reel

Reel (r?l), n. [Gael. righil.] 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). Bartlett.

Reel

Reel, n. [AS. krel: cf. Icel. krll a weaver's reed or sley.] 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. McElrath. 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. Knight.

Reel

Reel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (r?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeling. ] 1. To roll. [Obs.]
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.
2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

Reel

Reel, v. i. [Cf. Sw. ragla. See 2d Reel.] 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.

Reel

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

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.

To roll.

To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

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

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Usage Examples

When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

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