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REEL, n. See Reel, to stagger.

1. A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills. On a reel also seamen wind their log-lines, &c.
2. A kind of dance.

REEL, To gather yarn from the spindle.

REEL,

To stagger to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other to vacillate.

He with heavy fumes opprest, reel'd from the palace and retir'd to rest.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.

Psalms 107 .

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Entry for 'Reel'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​r/reel.html.
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