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▸ noun: (dance) A lively dance originating in Scotland.
▸ noun: (music) The music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
▸ noun: A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
▸ verb: To wind on a reel.
▸ verb: To spin or revolve repeatedly.
▸ verb: To unwind; to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
▸ verb: To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
▸ verb: (with back) To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
▸ verb: To make or cause to reel.
▸ verb: To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
▸ verb: (figurative, especially as "be reeling") To be in shock.
▸ verb: To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To roll.
▸ verb: (figurative) To bring in or along.
▸ noun: A surname.
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