What is "unreel"

Usage examples of "unreel".

Already Tenel Ka had unreeled the lightweight fibercord from her belt and removed the sturdy grappling hook.

Ten minutes into the picture, a not wholly unpleasant unreeling of swollen events in shades of black and blue, she excused herself to go to the bathroom.

Through the interval while a royal servant refreshed his cup, the Sorcerer unreeled his considered response in the form of three direct appeals.

I guessed he'd want to see my smiling face, soon's my expert here had a chance to unreel that doctored log tape that was on the Albatross.

A fantasy so elaborate must have been Phranakis's companion for years, nurtured in his subconscious, polished and perfected until he could unreel it like a cine-film, without any of the hesitations or doubts which would afford an entry for the therapist, disguised as a mere mental pawn.

Hardcastle plugged the driver's Kevlar helmet communications cord into the computer, got out of the vehicle, unreeled the fiberoptic data cable at least fifty feet, and knelt.

The hawser and air hose resumed transmitting the distant rumble of deployer drums, unreeling more tether so we might wander ever farther from safety.

There were filing cabinets and wall maps, and an automatic facsimile machine in one corner hummed softly as it covered a slowly unreeling roll of paper with slightly out-of-register typed orders, queries, lists and the like.

And the Weaver pulls in all its arms and drops lightly unreeled from its turning point in the air still sucking in what light there is and bloating on it as if it is the only real thing and Judah and the ground he stands upon and the threadbare trees he clutches are all old images, sun-bleached, on which a vivid spider walks.

But his eyes lit up, for there was nothing Bush enjoyed more than reefing topsails and unreeling them, sending down topgallant yards and sending them up again, rousting out cables and carrying them to a stern port in readiness to be used as a spring, and in fact rehearsing all the dozens —.

But his eyes lit up, for there was nothing Bush enjoyed more than reefing topsails and unreeling them, sending down topgallant yards and sending them up again, rousting out cables and carrying them to a stern port in readiness to be used as a spring, and in fact rehearsing all the dozens - hundreds - of manoeuvres that weather or war might make necessary.

But his eyes lit up, for there was nothing Bush enjoyed more than reefing topsails and unreeling them, sending down topgallant yards and sending them up again, rousting out cables and carrying them to a stern port in readiness to be used as a spring, and in fact rehearsing all the dozens hundreds of manoeuvres that weather or war might make necessary.

Just beyond The Fidd they streamed the little torpedo like a tin fish from the stern, letting it out on a Terylene line and unreeling the wire connecting it with the transmitter.

He took a used-up IBM typewriter ribbon out of it and began unreeling the ribbon on the floor and squinting at it.

The following familiar dialogue unreeled: "Do you mind if I tape this, Mildred?