English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of reel

reel

/verb/ अटेरना; लच्छा बनाना;
/noun/अटेरन; कुंडल; घिरनी; चरखी; एक प्रकार का नाच;

Synonym coil; clew; bobbin; earring; winch; sheave;

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English Dictionary:

1. Reel

[n.]

- A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

2. Reel

[v. i.]

- To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

3. Reel

[v. t.]

- To roll.
- To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.