Definition of reel

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

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Heck :: Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..
Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter..
Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
Reelect :: Reelect (v. t.) To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor..
Shooty :: Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Poured out freely; profuse.
Imbathe :: Imbathe (v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.
Profess :: Profess (v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely..
Titubation :: Titubation (n.) The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling..
Dendroidal :: Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.
Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man..
Vacillate :: Vacillate (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Freely :: Freely (adv.) In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
Free :: Free (adv.) Freely; willingly.
Lief :: Lief (adv.) Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not..
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
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