English to English noun
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a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector | | source: wordnet30
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music composed for dancing a reel | | source: wordnet30
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winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod | | source: wordnet30
4 |
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | | source: wordnet30
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a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps | | source: wordnet30
6 |
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines | | source: wordnet30
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A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. | | source: webster1913 verb
10 |
walk as if unable to control one's movements | | Example: The drunken man staggered into the room
source: wordnet30
11 |
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | | Example: The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy
source: wordnet30
12 |
wind onto or off a reel | | source: wordnet30
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To roll. | | source: webster1913
14 |
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. | | source: webster1913
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