Thesaurus: reel

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1. n. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. v. t. To roll.
6. v. t. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
7. v. i. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
8. v. i. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
9. n. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
10. n. a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
11. n. music composed for dancing a reel
12. n. winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod