Reel

n.	1.	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.
	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.
	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.
v. t.	1.	To roll. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (r?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeling. ] And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel. - Spenser.
	2.	To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
v. i.	1.	To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. - Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. - Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. - Macaulay.
	2.	To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. - Hawthorne.
n.	1.	The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

Noun	1.	reel - a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
	2.	reel - music composed for dancing a reel
	3.	reel - winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
	4.	reel - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound Synonyms: bobbin, spool
	5.	reel - a lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps Synonyms: Scottish reel
	6.	reel - an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines Synonyms: Virginia reel
Verb	1.	reel - walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag
	2.	reel - revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" Synonyms: spin, spin around, gyrate, whirl
	3.	reel - wind onto or off a reel

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