TO REEL OFF (or OUT), verb. phr. (colloquial).—To speak or produce easily. OFF THE REEL = in succession; right off.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 26 Oct. Winning three nurseries OFF THE REEL.
1888. Electric Review [Century]. [They] REELED OFF exactly the same number of words.
1894. GEORGE MOORE, Esther Waters, xxx. First five favourites STRAIGHT OFF THE REEL, three yesterday, and two second favourites the day before.
TO DANCE THE MILLER’S-REEL (REEL O’ STUMPIE or REEL OF BOGIE), verb. phr. (venery).—To copulate: see RIDE.
d. 1796. Old Scots Song, ‘The Mill, Mill, O’ [The Merry Muses (collected by BURNS)].
| Then she fell o’er, an’ sae did I, | |
| An’ DANC’D THE MILLER’S REEL, O. |
17[?]. Old Song, ‘Cald Kaill of Aberdene’ [SHARPE, ed. Ane Pleasant Garden].
| The lasses about Bogingicht, | |
| Their leems they are baith cleer and right, | |
| And if they are but girded right, | |
| They’ll DANCE THE REELL OF BOGIE. |
