REEL
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Reel (r&ē;l), n. [Gael. righil.] A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
[]
Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English “country dance,” or contradance (contredanse). Bartlett.
[]
Reel (r&ē;l), n. [AS. hreól: cf. Icel. hræll a weaver's reed or sley.] 1. 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.
[]
2. 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. McElrath.
[]
3. (Agric.) 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.
[]
Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.
[]
Reel (r&ē;l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (r?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeling. ] 1. To roll. [Obs.]
[]
And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.
Spenser.
[]
2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
[]
Reel (r&ē;l), v. i. [Cf. Sw. ragla. See 2d Reel.] 1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
[]
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
Ps. cvii. 27.
[]
He, with heavy fumes oppressed,
Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.
Pope.
[]
The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves.
Macaulay.
[]
2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
[]
In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.
Hawthorne.
[]
Reel (r&ē;l), n. The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak.
[]