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  • English Word Reel Definition 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.
  • English Word Reel Definition 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.
  • English Word Reel Definition To roll.
  • English Word Reel Definition To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
  • English Word Reel Definition To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
  • English Word Reel Definition To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
  • English Word Reel Definition The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
  • English Word Reelect Definition To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor.
  • English Word Reelection Definition Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
  • English Word Reeled Definition of Reel
  • English Word Reeler Definition One who reels.
  • English Word Reeler Definition The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.
  • English Word Reeligible Definition Eligible again; capable of reelection; as, reeligible to the same office.
  • English Word Reeling Definition of Reel
  • English Word Reem Definition The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
  • English Word Reem Definition To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
  • English Word Reembark Definition To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.
  • English Word Reembarkation Definition A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.
  • English Word Reembody Definition To embody again.
  • English Word Reembrace Definition To embrace again.
  • English Word Reemerge Definition To emerge again.
  • English Word Reemergence Definition Act of reemerging.
  • English Word Reenact Definition To enact again.
  • English Word Reenaction Definition The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted.
  • English Word Reenactment Definition The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
  • English Word Reencourage Definition To encourage again.
  • English Word Reendow Definition To endow again.
  • English Word Reenforce Definition To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
  • English Word Reenforce Definition Something which reenforces or strengthens.
  • English Word Reenforce Definition That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon.