Definition of reel

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Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..

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Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter..
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Cappadine :: Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag..
Totter :: Totter (v. i.) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
Compass :: Compass (n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy..
Pirn :: Pirn (n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod..
Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French..
Swimbel :: Swim (v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims..
Troll :: Troll (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water..
Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..
Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
Effuse :: Effuse (v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
Zoophyte :: Zoophyte (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids..
Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast..
By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..
Arborized :: Arborized (a.) Having a treelike appearance.
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
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