reel : Idioms & Phrases

• (Naut.), the reel on which the log line is wound.

Webster 1913

• verb unwind from or as if from a reel
  unreel.
  
  • unreel the tape
• verb recite volubly or extravagantly
  spiel off; rattle down; roll off; rattle off.
  
  • He could recite the names of all the chemical elements

WordNet

• a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.

Webster 1913

• noun a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
  reel.
  

WordNet

• noun an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
  reel.
  

WordNet

• the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance (contredanse). Bartlett.
• an old English contradance; so called in the United States. Bartlett.

Webster 1913