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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 123^v I Beseech yee of Eurydicee vnreele [L. retexite] the destinye.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sgominare,..to vnreele yarne.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 101 Vn-winde the bottome of old Times againe, Of Ages past vn-reele the snarled skaine.

1727 R. Collins Nature Display'd 71 Feeling, he flies, what flying will pursue; And, thro' the Deep, unreels the fatal Clue.

1835 F. W. Thomas Clinton Bradshaw I. xiv. 238 The noise of the engine bells and wheels was heard in the lane, as the hose-men ran to and fro, unreeling the hose.

1889 Engineer 15 Nov. 413/2 A measured mile course was laid off by unreeling from an anchored stake buoy one mile of fine wire.

1918 Rudder Sept. 441/1 He unreeled a fearsome yarn about sailing through fifty miles of snakes, off Borneo it was.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xxii. 258 I take it outside and tie the line on a nail..and unreel it to the other end of the garden.

1749 J. Kirkpatrick Sea-piece: Canto II 11 As the Line unreels, the Atoms run.

1771 tr. J. J. Winckelmann Crit. Acct. Situation & Destr. Herculaneum 114 The silk threads..unreeling from their pegs, extend gently one after another.

1803 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Beauties Eng. & Wales IV. 173 A weight is applied to keep them sufficiently tight for twisting, but not so as to prevent a single yarn from unreeling quicker than the others.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/1 They shall mark the Empire's line unreel From Cairo to the Cape.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird v. 65 He..put his thumb on the starter button of Johnson's tape recorder..the cassette began to unreel implacably.

1993 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 4 Jan. c10 The line unreeled with kinks in it, he said, and the subzero temperatures at the mountain could have been a factor.

1909 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 15 May 11/5 The Temple motion picture man will unreel a new film which completes what looks like the star bill of the season.

1927 Princeton Alumni Weekly 13 May 922/2 The film of ‘Slagle's Run’ was also to have been unreeled, but..it was unfortunately not received in time for the exhibition.

2005 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 16 June 1 (headline) Des Plains Theatre unreels the classics.

1915 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 17 Mar. 9/3 Another noteworthy feature play in the form of a four-reel melodramatic subject unreeling after the premonitory title ‘Over Niagara Falls’.

1933 Pop. Mech. Mar. 188 a The film in the projector, prepared in advance, begins to unreel in step with the words or music of the performers.

1941 Boys' Life Aug. 28/2 There was a story unreeling in Canton and he wanted to get it.

2006 S. Kanfer Stardust Lost (2007) xii. 162 America's first sound movie unreeled in 1927, making silent film obsolete and changing every aspect of show business.