A little wheel; spec. an angler's reel or winch on a fishing-rod. Obsolete.

spec. An angler's reel.

spec. Such a device attached to the butt of a fishing rod, incorporating a revolving barrel on which the line is spooled.

Anything that twirls or is twirled; †a reel, winch (obsolete); each of the whorls of a shell; a curved line. Also figurative.