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reel
I. \ˈrēl, esp before pause or consonant ˈrēəl\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hrēol; akin to Old Norse hræll weaver's sley, Latvian krekls shirt, Greek krekein to weave
1.
a. : a revolving device used in winding yarn or thread into hanks or skeins and in winding raw silk from cocoons and consisting usually of a light frame with radial arms on a central axle
b. : any of various revolving devices (as a flanged cylinder) for winding up or paying out something flexible (as rope, wire, strip metal or plastic, hose)
< lamps that pull down from overhead tension reels >
< a surveyor's reel containing a tape measure >
< a garden hose reel on wheels >
< an industrial reel for feeding coiled steel stock to a punch press >
c.
(1) : a flanged metal cylinder and crank attached to the butt of a fishing rod for winding up or letting out line
(2) chiefly Britain : a spool or bobbin of wood to hold sewing thread
< a cotton reel >
(3) : a shaft or drum on which the full-width sheet coming from a papermaking machine is wound
(4) : a flanged spool on which image-bearing motion-picture film or signal-bearing tape or wire is wound
< a standard reel of 35 mm. film containing 1000 or 2000 feet >
d. : a reel with its contents : the amount on a reel
< steel rope in reels of 1800 feet >
as
(1) : web; specifically : the part of a web in process of manufacture that has passed the driers of a paper machine
(2) : a strip of image-bearing motion picture film
(3) : a roll of postage stamps for use in a dispenser
2.
a. : a rotating conveyer used in dyeing
b. : a frame carrying the bolting cloth or mesh wire screen used to sift ground grain (as wheat, corn) or to grade and size hulled rice
c. : the upright revolving wheel in a reel oven consisting of connected pairs of radial arms from which the trays holding the baking pans are suspended
d. : a revolving set of bars that feed grain stalks through a harvester
e. : the spiral blading of a lawn mower
f. : a clothes dryer consisting of lines on a frame of usually radial arms revolving on a vertical pole
3. : a humming noise like that made by a moving reel
< a kingfisher … with his loud clicking reel — John Burroughs >
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- off the reel
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English reelen, relen, from reel (I)
transitive verb
1.
a. : to wind (as yarn, thread, fishline) upon a reel
b. : to unwind (silk) from a cocoon onto a reel
c. : to roll up (as postage stamps) into a pack
2. : to draw by reeling a line
< reel a fish in >
3. : to straighten (as pipe, rail, rod) by passing above two rolls and under a third
intransitive verb
: to wind on a reel
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English relen, probably from reel (I)
intransitive verb
1. : to turn or move round and round : whirl:
a. of the eyes : to roll with dizziness or excitement
b. : to be giddy : be in a whirl
< her head reeled under the blow — Kathleen Freeman >
< feats of heroism … so stupendous and so numerous that the mind reels absorbing them — Douglas Stewart >
2. : to behave in a violent disorderly manner : run riot
< the reeling days of faction fights — Sean O'Faolain >
3. : to waver or fall back from a blow
< reels under the impact >
< a fierce attack that sent the enemy reeling >
: recoil
< reeled back in horror >
4.
a. : to sway unsteadily on one's feet (as from dizziness or intoxication)
< reel down the street >
< having no strap to hold to, she reeled and staggered and pitched with every sudden start or jerking stop of the car — Clara Morris >
b. : to move with great irregularity and unsteadiness (as of a ship in a storm, a building in an earthquake)
5. dialect : to twist one's foot in walking
transitive verb
1. : to cause to reel
< reel his partner in a dance >
2. obsolete : to cause (as a stone) to roll
3. obsolete : to stagger through (a street)
IV. noun
(-s)
1. : a reeling motion
2. : tumult
3. reels plural, obsolete : revels
V. noun
(-s)
1.
a. : a lively dance of the Scottish Highlanders marked by circular figures and performed with gliding movements
b. : music for or having the rhythm of this dance in moderately quick duple time
2. : virginia reel
3. dialect : a dance song
VI. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to dance a reel
VII. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably from reel (III)
: a paver's hammer of from 5 to 7 pounds in weight having rectangular ends and used for finishing small paving blocks |