Reeling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reel \Reel\ (r[=e]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reeled} (r?ld); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Reeling}. ]
     1. To roll. [Obs.]
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              And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.


                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "reeling":
     addled, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity,
     axial motion, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, bowling,
     careening, centrifugation, circulation, circumgyration,
     circumrotation, crapulent, crapulous, dangling, dizzy, drenched,
     drunk, drunken, far-gone, flustered, fou, full, full circle, gay,
     giddy, glorious, gyrating, gyration, happy, in liquor, inebriate,
     inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, lurching, maudlin,
     mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, pitching, pivoting, revolution,
     revolving, rocking, roll, rolling, rotating, rotation,
     rotational motion, shikker, sodden, sotted, spin, spinning,
     swaying, swinging, swirling, swiveling, tiddly, tipsy, tossing,
     trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, twirling,
     under the influence, volutation, volution, wheeling, whir,
     whirling