A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills. On a reel also seamen wind their log-lines.

Akind of dance.

To gather yarn from the spindle.

To stagger; to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate. He with heavy fumes opprest, reel’d from the palace and retir’d to rest. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Psalm 107:27.