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

Definitions

1. noun. A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. transitive verb. To roll.
6. transitive verb. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
7. intransitive verb. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
8. intransitive verb. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
9. noun. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
10. noun. an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
11. noun. a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
12. noun. a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

    Synonyms: bobbin, spool

13. noun. winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
14. noun. a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
15. noun. music composed for dancing a reel
16. verb. wind onto or off a reel
17. verb. walk as if unable to control one's movements

    "The drunken man staggered into the room"

    Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag

18. verb. revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

    "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"

    Synonyms: gyrate, spin, whirl

Synonyms

bobbin, spool, careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag, gyrate, spin, whirl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reel:

leer, lere

Common word forms

reels, reeled, reeler, reeling, reelable

Words from these letters

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