the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Reel
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To roll.
(2):
(v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
(3):
(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
(4):
(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; - often called Scotch reel.
(8):
(n.) 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.
(9):
(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reel.html. 1828.
