n. A cylinder or frame turning on an axis, on which thread, yarn, string, rope, etc, are wound.n. A machine on which yarn is wound to form it into hanks, skeins, etc.n. In rope-making, the frame on which the spun-yarns are wound as each length is twisted, previous to tarring or laying up into strands.n. The revolving frame upon which silk-fiber is wound from the cocoon.n. Anything prepared for winding thread upon, as an open framework turning on a pivot at each end, upon which thread is wound as it is spun, or when a skein is opened for use.n. In telegraphy, a barrel on which the strip of paper for receiving the message is wound in a recording telegraph.n. A winch used by English and Scotch whalemen for regaining the tow-line. It is not employed by Americans.n. Nautical, a revolving frame varying in size, used for winding up hawsers, hose, lead-line, loglines, etc.n. A windlass for hoisting oyster-dredges.n. In milling, the drum on which the bolting cloth is placed.n. In agriculture, a cylinder formed of light slats and radial arms, used with a reaper to gather the grain into convenient position for the knives to operate on it, and to direct its fall on the platform.n. In baking, a cylindrical frame carrying bread-pans suspended from the horizontal arms of the frame. It is used in a form of oven called a reel oven.n. A device used in angling, attached to the rod, for winding the line, consisting of a cylinder revolving on an axis moved by a small crank or spring. The salmon-reel is about four inches, and the trout-reel about two inches in diameter; the length is about two inches. In angling the reel plays an important part, its use and action requiring to be in perfect accord or correspondence with the play of the rod and line. To meet these requirements, clicks and multipliers are employed. The click checks the line from running out too freely, and the multiplier gathers in the slack with increased speed.n. A hose-carriage.To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread from the spindle, or a fishing-line.To turn round and round; whirl.To sway from side to side in standing or walking; stagger, especially as one drunk.To be affected with a whirling or dizzy sensation: as, his brain reeled.Synonyms Reel, Stagger, and Totter have in common the idea of an involuntary unsteadiness, a movement toward falling. Only animate beings reel or stagger; a tower or other erect object may toter. Reel suggests dizziness or other loss of balance; stagger suggests a burden too great to be carried steadily, or a walk such as one would have in carrying such a burden; totter suggests weakness: one reels upon being struck on the head; a drunken man, a wounded man, staggers; the infant and the very aged totter.To turn about; roll about.To roll.To reel or stagger through.To cause to reel, stagger, totter, or shake.n. A staggering motion, as that of a drunken man; giddiness.n. (The attendant … carries off Lepidus [drunk].)… Eno, Drink thou; increase the reels.n. A lively dance, danced by two or three couples, and consisting of various circliug or intertwining figures. it is very popular in Scotland.n. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is duple (or rarely sextuple), and characterized by notes of equal length.To dance the reel; especially, to describe the figure 8 as in a reel.
