A second glance induced him to unclench his fists and reel round the corner on his way to a neighbouring grog-shop.
I drew the last loops of my line through the rings, and wound up the reel in all haste, and detaching the butt of my rod stood ready, for it looked as if he meant to fly at me.
Sea and sky grew dim before him, and the earth seemed to reel under him.
He played the onlyreel he knew, but that with vigour and effect.
He had put to blow in at ta one end, and out came ta reel at the other.
They saw the shimmer of the speckled beauties as they leaped for the fly, and felt the tingle of the rod as the line suddenly tightened, and hear the hum of the reel as the fish darted away in imagined safety.
By a quick movement which an old bass-fisherman taught me I made my bait dart like an arrow straight over the water more than one hundred feet, my reel at the same moment whirling, in paying out, as if it would fuse from friction.
No prettier nor sweeter girl ever footed the Virginia Reel in this whole Pennyroyal Region.
She had been reared to neatness and order, and to economy which valued even a reel of cotton too much to see it needlessly soiled.
You whisper-- although there is no reason for your whispering; you move cautiously, lest your reelscrape the gunwale.
With the first click of the reel he retired to the brush away from the back cast, there to remain until the pool was fished and we could continue our journey.
It is sometimes better to reel backwards than to run forwards.
Weaving) Defn: An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.
The line is wound on a reelwhich is so held as to let it run off freely.
To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
Rope Making) Defn: To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
O merry their lauch whan they fan the warm san', For the lichtsome reel sae meet!
Scotty helped him put the reelin place and feed the line through the guides.
I used to like to swing dat 'Ginia Reel and I's spry and young den.
The whir of the reel deadened now, and the stride of Miltiades was perceptibly lessened and then became but a vigorous up-and-down hop, while the tense line sang in the gentle autumn breeze.
An apple took the place of the reel of cotton, and its consumption afforded Christian just time enough to settle herself in her saddle.
It had a reel with twelve vanes to press the grain toward the cutters, and cause it to fall upon a travelling apron which carried away cut grain and deposited it at the side of the machine.
Reel machines are then employed to transfer the hides from one vat to another, thus subjecting them to liquors of increasing strength.
Ogle's was a crude machine, but it furnished the ideas of projecting the cutter-bar at the side of a reel to gather the grain to the cutter and of a grain platform which was tilted to drop the sheaf.
The two giant swordsmen reel in this duel of desperation.
When Hood sees that his devoted troops have not totally crushed the Union left, when his columns reel back from Leggett's Hill, mere fragments, he knows that even his dauntless men cannot be asked to try again that fearful quest.
Their Southern brethren in the ranks reel blindly in the bloody mazes of battle, fighting in the field.
You reel off the yarn as is printed there, Bill; and then I'll tell you what I think of it.
But I don't 'spects I'll find nobody in heben that'll be more reel comfort to me dan you chillen.
Dat was reel silber money, an' I hain't heerd nor seed nothin' of it sence.
You had better take the garden-reel and line," said Jonas to Oliver, "if you intend to make a good fort.
Rollo and Nathan measured with the reel and line, while Oliver planted a stake firmly in the snow at the four corners of the square.
Meanwhile from the tent door the wife looked on and Susan heard her say to the doctor with whom she had been conferring: "And when will it be my turn to dance the reel again?
Tom quickly had a fresh reel of film inserted, and started his camera to working, standing it on a tripod some distance from the airship.
Besides, I've got to put in a fresh reel of film, and I might as well get out of their sight to do it.
I might add that of all the pictures Tom took, few were more highly prized than that reel of the lion fight.
It won't take me long to get one reel of views, and then I'll come up again.
The Wizard Camera was loaded with a long reel of film, and ready for action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
