Word Meaning

reel definition and meaning

n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. 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.
v. t. To roll.
v. t. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
v. i. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
v. i. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
n. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

Crossword clues for reel

- A dance
- Barn dance
- Bobbin
- Cylinder on which flexible materials can be wound
- Fishing device
- Hose winder
- Lively dance
- Lurch has cotton spool
- Scottish dance
- Spin
- Spin around
- Spin round
- Spool
- Staff allowed to keep sink
- Stagger
- Stumble
- Sway about
- Totter