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reel

English

  1. 🔊 a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders
  2. 🔊 winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle
  3. 🔊 a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
  4. 🔊 music composed for dancing a reel
  5. 🔊 an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
  6. 🔊 a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
  7. 🔊 wind onto or off a reel
  8. 🔊 walk as if unable to control one's movements
    “The drunken man staggered into the room”
  9. 🔊 revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
    “The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 rollo reel
  2. 🔊 bobina reel, bobbin, spool
  3. 🔊 tambalear to reel, wobble, stagger

Similar words

virginia reel scottish reel bobbin spool stagger keel lurch swag careen spin spin around whirl gyrate charybdis chinese windlass spanish windlass avoid be drunk be intoxicated blench blink blunder bob bobble