reeling's Usage Examples:

(4) During the process of reeling from the cocoon the silk often breaks; and both in finding a true and [[Table Iv]].

She sought to right her reeling senses, registering Taran's scent.

reeling of silk cocoons by machinery.

A backhand sent her reeling.

Gabriel was still reeling from the sudden, inexplicable changes in his mate and the admittance by Deidre that she had made a deal with Darkyn.

Before the introduction of machinery applicable to the spinning of silk waste, the refuse from cocoon reeling, and also from silk winding, which is now used in producing spun silk fabrics, hosiery, 'c.

This is gradually supplanting the wasteful method of native reeling, giving a much better finished and consequently more valuble article.

His head was still reeling to the point he was fevered.

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.

In the summer of 1655, moreover, while the Republic was still reeling beneath the shock of the Muscovite invasion,, Charles X.

This assortment is of great consequence for the success of the reeling operations, as uniformity of quality and evenness and regularity of fibre are the most valuable features in raw silk.

The apparatus used for these purposes in some localities is of a very primitive kind, and the reeling being uneven and lumpy the silk is of inferior quality and low value.

A reeling gait, oscillations of the body which impart a zigzag direction to the walk, difficulty in standing, owing to unsteadiness of limb, are common in cerebellar disease.

Synonyms:

photographic film, film,

Antonyms:

unknot, disentangle, unweave,