reel

Definitions of reel in various dictionaries:

noun - a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector

noun - music composed for dancing a reel

noun - winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle

noun - a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

noun - a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders

noun - an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

verb - walk as if unable to control one's movements

verb - revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

verb - wind onto or off a reel

A device, such as a cylinder, spool, or frame, that turns on an axis and is used for winding and storing rope, tape, film, or other flexible materials.

A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod to let out or wind up the line.

The quantity of wire, film, or other material wound on one reel.

A set of curved lawn-mower blades that rotate around a bar parallel to the ground, cutting grass while moving against a stationary straight blade.

To wind on or let out from a reel.

To recover by winding on a reel: reel in a large fish.

To be thrown off balance or fall back: reeled from the sharp blow.

To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness: reeled down the alley.

To go round and round in a whirling motion: gulls reeling and diving.

To cause to reel.

A staggering, swaying, or whirling movement.

A fast dance of Scottish origin.

The Virginia reel.

The music for one of these dances.

A hand-held hammer used in a quarry for shaping granite blocks.

adj - to wind on a type of rotary device [v -ED, -ING, -S] : REELABLE

REEL - A reel is an object around which lengths of another material (usually long and flexible) are wound for storage. Generally a reel has a cylindrical co...