reel

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reel/riːl/

▶noun

• 1 a cylinder on which film, wire, thread, etc. can be wound.

  ■ a length of something wound on a reel.

• 2 a part of a film.

• 3 a lively Scottish or Irish folk dance.

  ■ a piece of music for a reel, typically in simple or duple time.

▶verb

• 1 (reel something in) wind a line on to a reel by turning the reel.

  ■ bring a fish attached to a line towards one by turning a reel.

• 2 (reel something off) say something rapidly and effortlessly.

• 3 stagger or lurch violently.

  ■ feel giddy or bewildered.

• 4 dance a reel.

– derivatives
reeler noun.

– origin OE hrēol, of unknown origin.