"cotton reel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cotton reels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cotton reel (plural cotton reels)
  1. A spool, or bobbin used to keep cotton thread tidy. Translations (A spool used to hold cotton thread): pōkaimiro (Maori)
    Sense id: en-cotton_reel-en-noun-4m3JnY0l Disambiguation of 'A spool used to hold cotton thread': 88 12
  2. A Scottish highland country dance. A 4x40 bar reel for 4 couples in a 4-couple longwise set. Categories (topical): Dances
    Sense id: en-cotton_reel-en-noun-b5ghbkQH Disambiguation of Dances: 12 88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 15 85

Inflected forms

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