reel /rēl/

1. A cylinder, drum, spool, bobbin or frame on which thread, fishing-line, wire, cables, photographic film, etc may be wound
2. A length of material so wound
3. A loud rattling, a din (Scot)
4. A whirl, a stagger
5. A lively dance, esp Highland or Irish
6. A tune for it, usu in 4–4, sometimes in 6–8 time
7. (in pl) revelry (Shakespeare)

1. To wind on a reel
2. To take off by or from a reel
3. To draw (in) by means of a reel
4. To cause to whirl or roll (Spenser)
5. To stagger along (Shakespeare)

1. To whirl
2. To seem to swirl or sway
3. To totter
4. To stagger
5. (of eg line of battle) to waver
6. To rattle (Scot)
7. To dance a reel

reelˈer noun

1. A person who reels
2. The grasshopper-warbler

reelˈing noun and adjective

reelˈingly adverb

reelˈman noun (Aust)

The member of a surf life-saving team who operates the reel on which the line is wound

reelˈ-to-reelˈ adjective

1. (of recording equipment) using magnetic tape which is wound from one reel to another (as opposed to cassette or cartridge)
2. (of a magnetic tape) which passes between two reels, as used with a reel-to-reel tape recorder

off or right off the reel

1. In uninterrupted course or succession
2. Without stop or hesitation

• ring binder
• ring binders
• ringbit
• ringbits
• ringbolt
• ringbolts
• ringbone
• ringbones
• ring-canal
• ring-canals
• ring-carrier
• ring-carriers
• ring circuit
• ring circuits
• ring-compound
• ring-compounds
• ring-cross
• ring-crosses
• ring dance
• ring dances
• ring dial
• ring dials
• ring dotterel
• ring dotterels
• ringdove