Reel \Reel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (r?ld); p. pr. & vb.
n. Reeling. ]
1. To roll. [Obs.]
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.
--Spenser.
2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Reel \Reel\, v. i. [Cf. Sw. ragla. See 2d Reel.]
1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to
stagger.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man. --Ps. cvii.
27.
He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the
palace, and retired to rest. --Pope.
The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves.
--Macaulay.
2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.
--Hawthorne.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Reel \Reel\ (r?l), n. [Gael. righil.]
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the
music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States
for the old English ``country dance,'' or contradance
(contredanse). --Bartlett.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Reel \Reel\, n. [AS. kre?l: cf. Icel. kr?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.
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.
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.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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