reel
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/ษนiหl/
English
Definitions
noun
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, 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.โa garden reelโ
- A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, โ-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
verb
- To wind on a reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.โHe reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.โ
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
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