The Clue
Sways (5 letter answer)
The Answer
REELS
Tags
Notes
The answer REELS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
Bobbins
Spins
Spools
Staggers
Titubates
Totters
Whirls
Angling equipment
Cinephiles' collectibles
Country dances
Feels dizzy
Film spools
Film units
Hoedowns' kin
Kin of strathspeys
Line holders
Lively dances
Movie units
Projectionists' concerns
Projector items
Reacts to a shock
Scottish dances
Tape holders
Undergoes vertigo
Walks unsteadily
Holders of many frames
Moves like a tosspot
Projection room items
Says quickly, with "off"
Some Hollywood archives
Frames wind up on them
Definition
REEL as a noun:
1. a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
2. music composed for dancing a reel
3. winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
4. (bobbin, spool, reel) = a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
5. (reel, Scottish reel) = a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
6. (Virginia reel, reel) = an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
REEL as a verb:
1. (stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen) = walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"
2. (spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate) = revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy"
3. wind onto or off a reel