reel

Definitions

• A shaky or unsteady gait.
• A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
• A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
• (textiles) 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.
• (agriculture) 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.
• (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.