Talk:reel
What about the usage as in "I'm still reeling from last night"? Tooironic 03:27, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
- "To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self." 86.161.153.122 03:54, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
There's a noun that used to describe movie lengths like "four reels". Robotwisdom (talk) 11:41, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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I may be ignorant, but surely 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. is the same as the previous definition A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound Notusbutthem (talk) 22:43, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Send to RFV: this seems to refer to a powered machine that does work, and not a mere spool for thread like you'd buy at a craft shop. Equinox ◑ 22:06, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense "(textiles) 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." moving from RFD. - TheDaveRoss 18:22, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
- The sense certainly exists - it's a specific use of sense 3, but it probably deserves its own sense for historical reasons as the only meaning recorded (by OED at least) in OE and ME. The stuff after the dashes can just be deleted, I think. This, that and the other (talk) 23:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
RFV Failed Ioaxxere (talk) 21:54, 9 February 2023 (UTC)