meaning of reel
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; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an anglers reel; a garden reel.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To roll.
6. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
7. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
8. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
9. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
10. an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
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