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Webster 1913 Edition
Reel
Reel
(rēl)
, Noun.
[Gael.
righil
.] A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; – often called
Scotch reel
. Virginia reel
, the common name throughout the United States for the old English “country dance,” or contradance (contredanse).
Bartlett.
Reel
(rēl)
, Noun.
[AS.
hreól
: cf. Icel. hræll
a weaver’s reed or sley.] 1.
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
2.
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.
McElrath.
3.
(Agric.)
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.
Reel oven
, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.
Knight.
Reel
(rēl)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reeled
(r?ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Reeling
. ] 1.
To roll.
[Obs.]
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did
reel
. Spenser.
2.
To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
1.
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
They
reel
to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27.
He, with heavy fumes oppressed,
Reeled
from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope.
The wagons
reeling
under the yellow sheaves. Macaulay.
2.
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
In these lengthened vigils his brain often
reeled
. Hawthorne.
Reel
(rēl)
, Noun.
The act or motion of reeling or staggering;
as, a drunken
. reel
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reel
REEL
,Noun.
1.
A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills. On a reel also seamen wind their log-lines, &c.2.
A kind of dance.REEL
,Verb.
T.
REEL
, v.i.To stagger; to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate.
He with heavy fumes opprest, reel'd from the palace and retir'd to rest.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
Ps. 107.
Definition 2024
réel
réel
See also: reel
French
Adjective
réel m (feminine singular réelle, masculine plural réels, feminine plural réelles)
- real (true, fact, not fictional)
- (mathematics) real (of a number)
Antonyms
Synonyms
Noun
réel m (uncountable)
- (psychology) real (reality)
Related terms
References
Norman
Etymology
From Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs.
Adjective
réel m
Synonyms
Derived terms
- réellement (“really”)