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A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the
music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. |
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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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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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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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To roll. |
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To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. |
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To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to
stagger. |
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To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. |
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The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken
reel. |
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