REEL, a revolving contrivance on which fiber, thread, cord, rope, fabric, etc., are wound, to form them into hanks or skeins, and for various other pur poses; applied to: Agriculture, a device having radial arms carrying horizontal slats, and ro tated by gear or pulley connected with the axle of a harvester, for pressing backward and holding the stalks of grain in position for being severed by the knives. Angling, a skeleton barrel at tached to the butt of a fishing rod, around which the inner end of the line is wound, and from which it is payed out as the fish runs off with the bait, and is gradually wound in again as his strug gles become less violent, bringing him to land or to the landing net. Baking, a cylinder with radial arms rotating in a heated chamber, carrying pans in which loaves of bread are placed for baking in the reel-oven. Cotton machinery, a ma chine on which cotton is wound, making hanks of thread, each 840 yards in length. Domestic, a spool or bobbin of
wood on which cotton, thread, silk, etc., is wound for use in sewing. Milling, the barrel or drum on which the bolting cloth is fastened. Nautically, a revolv ing frame to hold a line or cord, as: (a) the log-reel; (b) the deep sea-reel; and (c) the spun-yarn-reel, etc. Rope-mak ing, spun-yarns are wound on a reel preparatory to tarring or laying up into strands as the twisting of each length is completed. Silk-making, the revolv ing frame on which silk is wound from the cocoons, or yarn is wound off from the spindle of a hand-spinning machine, and reeled into cuts or banks. Teleg raphy, a barrel on which the strip of paper for receiving the message is wound in a recording telegraph.