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Reel
A shaky or unsteady gait.
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːl/, [ˈɹʷɪi̯l]
What “Reel” means
Noun
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland.
- 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 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.
Verb
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind; to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
Where the word comes from
From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.
Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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