Synonyms for reel
Definitions
- n. 1
A shaky or unsteady gait.
Related words
- Word family
- reel-pot reeler
- Phrases
- reel off blooper reel gag reel reel mower reel out
Forms
- Plural
- reels → spools, bobbins, stories, showreels…
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To reel or totter always implies liability to fall; reeling is more violent than swaying, tottering more irregular; a drunken man reels; we speak of the tottering step of age or infancy.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- spool A new spool of filament has been delivered.
- bobbin Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.
By length
- 5 letters
- story2, dance1, spool1
- 6 letters
- bobbin2
- 8 letters
- showreel
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).