Definition of reel

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Reel (n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel..

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Filature :: Filature (n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons..
Diathermal :: Diathermal (a.) Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..
Sapwood :: Sapwood (n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood..
Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to reel or totter.
Reeler :: Reeler (n.) One who reels.
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..
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
Swingle :: Swinger (n.) A person who engages freely in sexual intercourse.
Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
Bibber :: Bibber (n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber..
Render :: Render (v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way..
Streen :: Streel (v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion..
Reeling :: Reeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ree.
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..
Catenary :: Catenary (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..
Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
Giddy :: Giddy (v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
Stream :: Stream (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes..
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