Word Finder - reeled

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To wind on a reel.

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To spin or revolve repeatedly.

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To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

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He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.

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To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.

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(with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

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He reeled back from the punch.

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To make or cause to reel.

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To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

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To be in shock.

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To roll.

Ronnie reeled them off with such aplomb it almost didn't matter.

Fred Davies was fishing for bream and using 2 sweet corn when he had a bite and reeled in a 5lb pike.

With no stoppage forthcoming, Mark Loram brilliantly reeled in Rico, before daringly dashing past on the back straight of the final lap.

Part of him reeled at the turn of events that found him sitting with a man who had never before acknowledged him.

As this estimation presents some difficulties and divergences, the size of the thread is generally defined commercially by deniers or decigrammes, those of the Anthereas (wild silks) being said to range from 5 to 8 deniers or decigrammes, results confirmed by actual experience with the reeled thread.

Lucas reeled under the loss of his uncle while his mother Karen (pregnant with Keith's child) had to cope with losing the man she had finally come to love.

This increased production of medium silk, and the growing demand for fine sorts, induced many of the cocoon-growers in the Levant to sell their cocoons to Europeans, who reeled them in Italian fashion under the name of " Patent Brutia," thus producing a very fine valuable silk.

From these bobbins the silk is reeled into hanks of definite length for the market.

As the outer flossy threads and the inner vests are not reelable, it is difficult to estimate the total length of thread produced by the silkworm, but the portion reeled varies in length and thickness, according to the condition and robustness of the cocoon, in some breeds giving a result as low as Soo metres, and in others 900 to 1200 metres.

It is only floss, injured and unreelable cocoons, the husks of reeled cocoons, and other waste from reeling, with certain wild silks, which are treated by the spun silk process, and the silk thereby produced loses much of the beauty, strength and brilliance which are characteristic of the manufactures from reeled silk.

Crowding of positions must now be guarded against, to prevent the spinning of double cocoons (doupions) by two worms spinning together and so interlacing their threads that they can only be reeled for a coarser and inferior thread.

When a large number of cocoons are to be combined into one strand they may be reeled from the tray in four sets, which are first crossed in pairs, then combined into two, and those two then crossed and afterwards combined into a single strand.

In 1857 commenced the exportation of Japan silk, which became so fierce a competitor with Bengal silk as gradually to displace it in favour; and the native silk reeled in Bengal has almost ceased to be made, only the best European filatures, produced under the supervision of skilled Europeans, now coming forward.

Up to the year 1860 the bulk of the silks from the East was shipped to London, but subsequently, owing to the importance of continental demands, a large portion of the supplies has been unshipped at Genoa and Marseilles (especially the finer reeled silks from Japan and Canton), which are sold in the Milan and Lyons markets.

About one-sixth of this weight is pure cocoon, and of that one-half is obtainable as reeled silk, the remainder consisting of surface floss or blaze and of hard gummy husk.

Here we must distinguish between the reeled silk and the spun or waste silk manufactures.

Next follows the operation of cleaning, in which the silk is simply reeled from one bobbin to another, but on its way it passes through a slit which is sufficiently wide to pass the filament but stops the motion when a thick lump or nib is presented.