Reel

Noun

 * 1) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
 * 2) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound
 * a log reel, used by seamen
 * an angler's reel
 * a garden reel
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

Verb

 * 1) To wind on a reel.
 * 2) To spin or revolve repeatedly.
 * 3) To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
 * He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
 * 1) To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self.
 * 2) (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
 * He reeled back from the punch.
 * 1) To make or cause to reel.

Quotations

 * to stagger
 * 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111
 * Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.

Derived terms

 * reel in
 * reel off

Adverbs for Reel
visibly; weakly; drunkenly; dizzily; abruptly; sickeningly; swayingly.

Thesaurus
Charybdis, Chinese windlass, Spanish windlass, avoid, be drunk, be intoxicated, blench, blink, blunder, bob, bobble, call off, capstan, careen, career, centrifugate, centrifuge, coggle, crab, crank, crank in, cringe, dangle, dizzy round, dodge, draw back, draw in, draw taut, duck, eddy, enumerate, evade, fade, fall back, falter, flinch, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, flutter, gurge, gyre, hang back, heave, hobbyhorse, itemize, jib, labor, librate, list, lurch, maelstrom, make heavy weather, name, nutate, oscillate, pass out, pendulate, pirouette, pitch, pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, pull back, pull in, purl, quail, rat race, rear, recite, recoil, reel back, reel in, reel off, resonate, retreat, review, rock, roll, round, run over, run through, scend, see double, seethe, shake, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shy, sidestep, spin, stagger, stammer, start aside, start back, struggle, stumble, surge, swag, sway, swerve, swim, swing, swinging, swirl, tackle, tauten, teeter, thrash about, tighten, topple, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trim, tumble, turn, turn aside, twirl, vacillate, vibrate, volutation, vortex, wag, waggle, wallop, wallow, wave, waver, weasel, weasel out, weave, welter, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, wince, winch, wind in, windlass, wobble, yaw

Pronunciation

 * Homophones:real
 * Homophones:real

Noun

 * Danish:


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: макара
 * Danish: tromle, rulle , hjul , trisse


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Spanish:


 * Danish: rulle
 * Finnish: rulla


 * Finnish: laonnostokela


 * German:


 * Danish: rulle


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Finnish:, ,


 * Spanish: enrollar


 * Danish: rulle, spole, vinde


 * Finnish: ,


 * Danish: rulle


 * Finnish: kelata (auki)
 * Hungarian: leteker


 * Danish: vakle, rave, slingre
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Norwegian: vakle
 * Russian: идти шатаясь, спотыкаться


 * Danish: vakle


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: (reel back),  (spin)

Anagrams

 * leer
 * lere

Adjective

 * 1) real, proper
 * 2) reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)

Noun

 * 1)  reel

Etymology 1
From réel:, from  realis:.

Etymology 2
From reel:.