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Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), n. [AS. hre['o]l: cf. Icel. hr[ae]ll 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.
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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.
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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.
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{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.
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Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), n. [Gael. righil.]
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the
music to the dance; -- often called {Scotch reel}.
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{Virginia reel}, the common name throughout the United States
for the old English "country dance," or contradance
(contredanse). --Bartlett.
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Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reeled} (r?ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Reeling}. ]
1. To roll. [Obs.]
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And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.
--Spenser.
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2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
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Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), v. i. [Cf. Sw. ragla. See {2d Reel}.]
1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to
stagger.
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They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man. --Ps. cvii.
27.
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He, with heavy fumes oppressed,
Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. --Pope.
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The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves.
--Macaulay.
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2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
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In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.
--Hawthorne.
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Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), n.
The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken
reel. --Shak.
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