Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. 2. (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel. 3. (n.) 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. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (v. t.) To roll. 6. (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread. 7. (v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. 8. (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

Multi-Version Concordance Reel (6 Occurrences) Psalms 60:3 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. (See RSV) Psalms 107:27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Proverbs 5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (See JPS) Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. (KJV JPS DBY WBS NAS NIV) Isaiah 28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 25:16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. (WEB JPS ASV DBY)