reel - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'reel' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Reel

[ n.]

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

2 . Reel

[ v. i.]

- To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

3 . Reel

[ v. t.]

- To roll.
- To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

Meaning of 'reel' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . reel

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

Example in sentence:

The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy

Meaning (2):
- walk as if unable to control one's movements

Example in sentence:

The drunken man staggered into the room

Nearby Words:

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