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reel
reel is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 18 senses
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- 1noun
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
To roll.
- 6transitive verb
To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
- 7intransitive verb
To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
- 8intransitive verb
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- 9noun
The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
- 10noun
an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
- 11noun
a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- 12noun
a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- 13noun
winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- 14noun
a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- 15noun
music composed for dancing a reel
- 16verb
wind onto or off a reel
- 17verb
walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man staggered into the room"
- 18verb
revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
"The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
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