To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
To flop around as a fish out of water.
To be in serious difficulty.
He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder, Platichthys flesus.
Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
To wind on a reel.
To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
To make or cause to reel.
To spin or revolve repeatedly.
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
To be in shock.
To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
A shaky or unsteady gait.