REEL (O.E. hreol, glossed by the Med.

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Lat. alibrum in .lelfric's Glossary, c. 1o5o; the word is of unknown origin; it does not appear in cognate

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languages, and

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• CELTIC

Celtic forms such as Gaelic ruidhil are from

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English)  , a cylinder or apparatus of cylindrical shape on which a thread or line can be wound; e.g. the small wooden cylinder with projecting rims at either end on which sewing cotton or silk is wound for immediate use, the revolving " click-reel " attached to a fishing-rod, and the open revolving framework on which thread is wound as it is spun . The name of the Scottish dance (Gaelic righil, ruithil) is probably the same word (see DANCE) . In architecture, an ornamental moulding consisting of spherical-shaped bodies alternating with flat reel-shaped disks placed on edge is known as a " bead and reel" moulding .