A Scotch dance. (Gaelic, righil.)
“Weʹve been travelling best part of twenty-four hours right off the reel.”—Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, chap. xxxi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.