REEL
Reel (rl), n. Etym: [Gael. righil.]
Defn: 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
Reel, n. Etym: [AS. kre: cf. Icel. kr 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.)
Defn: 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
Reel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (rld); 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.