0 past simple and past participle of reel
1 to walk, moving from side to side, looking like you are going to fall:
To make silk, the filaments from several cocoons are unwound and reeled together, resulting in fibres of extraordinary strength.
A while later, the cat staggered into the kitchen, reeled about, then collapsed on the floor.
Although yarn continued to be reeled for the dyers, weaving departments largely took their yarn unreeled.
This fall in exports naturally led to falling prices for cocoons and reeled silk in the major producing areas and declining shipments out of them.
He reeled off a very long list of similar cases.
However, reeled out, they mean nothing to people and even less to a concerned patient.
He reeled off a number of statistics that looked encouraging.
Therefore, he reeled off a list of guarantees he was going to demand from the prospective purchaser.
