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Meaning of 'reel'
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. [ 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.
- 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. [ v. i.]- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
3. Reel [ v. t.]
- To roll. [ v. t.]- To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
Meaning of 'reel' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. reel [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- 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
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
Example in sentence:
- The drunken man staggered into the room
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