Definition of reel

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Reel (n.) 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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Preelect :: Preelect (v. t.) To elect beforehand.
Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger..
Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..
Solarium :: Solarium (n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents..
Free :: Free (adv.) Freely; willingly.
Tipsy :: Tipsy (superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling..
Vacillate :: Vacillate (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..
Spun :: Spilth (n.) Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion..
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the
Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
Dendroidal :: Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.
Effuse :: Effuse (v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
Knot :: Knot (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour..
Bleed :: Bleed (v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund..
Gratuity :: Gratuity (n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
Gratis :: Gratis (adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Filature :: Filature (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk..
Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast..
Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
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