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- adverb With a
reeling motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The air roared, and the ground fled reelingly under their feet.
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During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions even though preventer tackles had been attached to it -- for they were slack -- because some play to the tiller was indispensable.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached to it -- for they were slack -- because some play to the tiller was indispensable.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Out spreads the canvas -- alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun 'sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached to it -- for they were slack -- because some play to the tiller was indispensable.
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For, as he reelingly trampled along on the rank herbage between this forest and that sea of sand, just as he was dying of exhaustion, his faint foot trod upon a store of life and health!
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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We first meet him reelingly drunkenly out of a pub or betting shop, shouting four-letter abuse at a rate that might give James Kelman pause.
Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011
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Pequod’s jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions even though preventer tackles had been attached to it — for they were slack — because some play to the tiller was indispensable.
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