reel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reel	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for reel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reel n a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector music composed for dancing a reel winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound Synonym(s): bobbin, spool, reel a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps Synonym(s): reel, Scottish reel an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines Synonym(s): Virginia reel, reel v walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" Synonym(s): stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" Synonym(s): spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate wind onto or off a reel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reel \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reel \Reel\ (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 [bd]country dance,[b8] or contradance (contredanse). --Bartlett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reel \Reel\, n. [AS. kre[?]l: cf. Icel. kr[?]ll 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reel \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reel \Reel\, n. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. --Shak.