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reel /rēl/ noun- A cylinder, drum, spool, bobbin or frame on which thread, fishing-line, wire, cables, photographic film, etc may be wound
- A length of material so wound
- A loud rattling, a din (Scot)
- A whirl, a stagger
- A lively dance, esp Highland or Irish
- A tune for it, usu in 4–4, sometimes in 6–8 time
- (in pl) revelry (Shakespeare)
transitive verb- To wind on a reel
- To take off by or from a reel
- To draw (in) by means of a reel
- To cause to whirl or roll (Spenser)
- To stagger along (Shakespeare)
intransitive verb- To whirl
- To seem to swirl or sway
- To totter
- To stagger
- (of eg line of battle) to waver
- To rattle (Scot)
- To dance a reel
ORIGIN: OE hrēol, but poss partly of other origin; Gaelic righil (the dance) may be from English reelˈer noun - A person who reels
- 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 - (of recording equipment) using magnetic tape which is wound from one reel to another (as opposed to cassette or cartridge)
- (of a magnetic tape) which passes between two reels, as used with a reel-to-reel tape recorder
off or right off the reel - In uninterrupted course or succession
- Without stop or hesitation
reel off To utter rapidly and fluently Virginia reel An American country dance |