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noun
- A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural: reeds)
- (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
- (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
- (countable) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
- (countable) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
- (uncountable) (as a material)
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noun
- A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
- A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound
- a log , used by seamen
- an angler's
- a garden
- 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.
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
verb
- To wind on a .
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of one's self.
- (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
- He reeled back from the punch.
- To make or cause to .
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noun (regain, regains, regained, regaining)
- (transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
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noun - Orig. Name originally used in w:Venice, Venice for specific boat-races on the Grand Canal.
- A series of boat-races, although sometimes used for a single race.
- A striped cotton fabric.
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noun
- a protective covering
verb
- to attempt to counter the actions or effects of someone or something (transitive)
- to withstand such actions (transitive)
- to oppose (intransitive)
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verb (ret, t, ing)
- (transitive) To prepare (flax etc) for use, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerate, macerating, and other treatment.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 621:
- : the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring
abbreviation
- retired
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adjective
- able to be reversed
- (context, of clothing) able to be worn inside out
- (chemistry) (of a chemical reaction) capable of proceeding in either direction
- (physics) (of a phase change) capable of returning to the original state
- (thermodynamics) capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy
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proper noun (infl, en, proper noun)
- An Irish family name.
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verb to rove
- (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area
- (transitive) To card wool or other fibres
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verb
- (present participle of, rove)
adjective
- wandering freely.
- His eyes never focused on anything specific.
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noun
- A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
- Country dress; homespun cloth.
- A reddish-brown color.
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- A reddish-brown pigment prepared from madder root (Rubia tinctoria); "a true middle hue between orange and purple."
- (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)
- Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin.
- Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.
adjective
- Having a reddish-brown color.
- Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).
- "Russet-pated" (gray hair). Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2.
- Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
- Shakespeare, Loves Labour's Lost, V. 2
- "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)
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