reel
English
Etymology
From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol. Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹiːl/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: real (some accents)
- Rhymes: -iːl
Noun
reel (plural reels)
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- a log reel, used by seamen
- an angler's reel
- a garden reel
- nudge the fruit machine reel
- (textiles) 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)
- (agriculture) 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.
- (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
Translations
dance, music
spool
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machine for winding yarns
Verb
reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- Bible, Psalms cvii. 27
- They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
- Alexander Pope
- He, with heavy fumes oppressed, / Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.
- Macaulay
- the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 30, in The Dust of Conflict:
- It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111
- Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.
- Bible, Psalms cvii. 27
- (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
- He reeled back from the punch.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- To be in shock.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
- 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
- (obsolete) To roll.
- Spenser
- And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.
- Spenser
Translations
to wind on a reel
to spin or revolve repeatedly
to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else
to walk shakily or unsteadily
References
- “reel” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Atong (India)
Etymology
Borrowed from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reːl/
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French réel (“real”), from Medieval Latin reālis (“actual”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛɛl/, [ʁɛˈɛlˀ], [ʁeˈɛlˀ]
Inflection
Inflection of reel | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Common singular | reel | — | —2 |
Neuter singular | reelt | — | —2 |
Plural | reelle | — | —2 |
Definite attributive1 | reelle | — | — |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riːl/, [ʁiːˀl], [ʁiːl], [ɹiːl]
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