English Dictionary

reel

/ɹiːl/

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.

She walked with a reel after the roller coaster ride.

意味（1）

A shaky or unsteady gait.

Doubtless the present game of chess was developed through just such fiddling; perhaps someone once thought that the drunken reel of the knight was hostile to the essence of Chess.

意味（2）

A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.

意味（3）

A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

a log reel, used by seamen

意味（4）

(textiles) 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.

意味（5）

(agriculture) 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.

意味（6）

(film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.