Definitions of reel
n. - A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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v. t. - To roll.
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v. t. - To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
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v. i. - To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
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v. i. - To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
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n. - The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
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The word "reel" uses 4 letters: E E L R.
Direct anagrams of reel:
leer
Words formed by adding one letter before or after reel (in bold), or to eelr in any order:
a - laree b - rebel c - creel d - elder f - fleer refel g - leger m - merle p - leper repel s - leers reels t - relet v - elver lever revel y - leery
Shorter words found within reel:
eel el er ere lee re ree
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