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(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. Reel n.[AS. krel: cf. Icel. krll 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. 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. 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. Reel n.The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak. スポンサード リンク
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