reel

Meaning of reel

noun
  1. A shaky or unsteady gait.
  2. A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
  3. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
    a garden reel
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
verb
  1. To wind on a reel.
  2. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
  3. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
    He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
  4. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
  5. (with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
    He reeled back from the punch.
  6. To make or cause to reel.
  7. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
  8. To be in shock.
  9. To roll.

Information about reel

Hyphenation of reel

reel

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • reel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

reel synonyms

Meaning bobbin:

bobbin, spool

Meaning stagger:

stagger, keel, lurch, swag, careen

Meaning spin:

spin, whirl, gyrate

Anagrams of reel

Erle, leer, lere

Words that rhyme with reel

Reel, areel, Creel, creel, encreel, screel, rereel, skreel, unreel, newsreel, streel, Jezreel

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