Reel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to wind on a type of rotary device
• wind something on to a reel by turning the reel
• bring in a fish attached to a line by turning a reel and winding in the line
• walk in a staggering or lurching manner, especially while drunk
• feel shocked, bewildered, or giddy
• dance a reel.
• To roll.
• To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
• To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
• To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
• walk as if unable to control one\'s movements
• revolve quickly and repeatedly around one\'s own axis
• wind onto or off a reel
• stagger, sway, or whirl
• lose one's balance and stagger or lurch violently
NOUN:
• a cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound
• a length of something wound on to a reel
• a part of a film
• a device for winding and unwinding a line as required, in particular the line attached to a fishing rod.
• a lively Scottish or Irish folk dance
• a piece of music for a reel, typically in simple or duple time.
• cylindrical object on which film, tape, thread, or wire is wound
• A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
• a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
• music composed for dancing a reel
• winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
• a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
• a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
• an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

Words related to REEL

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How to use REEL in a sentence

• Failing in this, down he plunged fifty feet straight towards the bottom, making the reel hiss by his mad efforts to escape.
• It was turned by hand and when enough yarn had been reeled to make a cut the reel signaled it with a snap.
• Almost simultaneously, Miss Heydinger cried out that something was smoothing her hair, and suddenly the musical box set off again with a reel.
• The sum soon becoming too large to work in his head, he had recourse to pencil and paper, and after five minutes’ hard labour sat gazing at a total which made his brain reel.
• The reel drew to a close, and some of the party were in the mind of starting.
• Close to him was the great coil of cord on its reel.
• All the fabric of her character, so mercilessly assaulted, appeared in that moment to reel, topple, and go crashing to its wreck.
• Cromarty-Gow, who was renowned for a cynical wit, and had been seeking an occasion to air it ever since Lord Tulliwuddle had made Miss Gallosh promise to dance a reel with him.
• A few years ago the reel was led by Theodore Roosevelt and the late Joseph H.
• The thing, in its enormity, struck him a blow that made him reel, for a moment, till he could grasp at his self-control.
• As Ishmael looked the tears swam in his eyes, making the whole radiant vision reel and run together in a blaze of passionate light and colour.
• A multiplying reel holding sixty yards is large enough for most fishing.
• Point your thumb along the line of the rod and start by pulling out a little line from the reel with the left hand.
• The principal point in this way of fishing is to stop the reel by using the thumb as a brake at the instant that the bait strikes the water.
• McGrath had a common bamboo cane, a battered old reel, and the value of his outfit might be generously estimated at half a dollar.
• I could not believe that a bass had taken it, but all doubt on the subject was dispelled by the shrill whir of my reel as the fine silk line spun out at a tremendous rate.
• One end of this film is fastened to the empty, or lower, reel.
• Almost incredible really, we should have to decide so tremendous an administrative problem off the reel and without any Administrative Staff.
• At length, as partners were being chosen for the Virginia Reel, a beautiful girl approached the solitary guest and requested his hand for the set just forming.
• Then he rushed into the stall, and when he saw the calf slaughtered and the magic reel stolen, he comprehended all.
• He would tell him to wind the twine on the reel, to carry the tools where they were wanted, or to rake the chips into a heap.
• In mine eyes I felt the flame Of a rage that nought could tame, And I cried and cursed his name, Till my brain began to reel.
• Sometimes one end of thread is left attached to the reel instead of using the second shuttle.
• Three or four feet of line are drawn from the reel.
• Scarcely did the fly touch the water when the line was drawn, the light rod dipped with graceful curve, and the revolving reel drew in the speckled beauty to the shore.

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