Reel
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To roll.
(2): ( v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
(3): ( v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
(4): ( v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
(5): ( 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.
(6): ( n.) 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.
(7): ( n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; - often called Scotch reel.
(8): ( n.) 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.
(9): ( n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
King James Dictionary [2]
Reel, n. See Reel, to stagger.
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, To gather yarn from the spindle.
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.
Psalms 107 .
