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The correct spelling is reel.
How to pronounce reel
/ɹiːl/
nounIPA: /ɹiːl/
Say it like: Ree-l
The correct spelling is reel. A shaky or unsteady gait. For example: "a garden reel"
Usage Examples
“a garden reel”
“He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.”
“He reeled back from the punch.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A shaky or unsteady gait.
- 2.A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- 3.A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- 4.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.
- 5.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.
verb
- 1.To wind on a reel.
- 2.To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- 3.To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- 4.To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- 5.(with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
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