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.-to roll.-to wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.-to incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.-to have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.-the act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.