adverb in chaotic haste; confusedly; pell mell: I wisnae minutes in the toilets when a noise like the thunders o hell nearly burst my ears. The ship shuddered violently and I was hurled reel-rall against the waa [wall]. 19-.
noun a state of confusion, a muddle of objects, sounds la18-. etymology: possibly a development from reel raw adjective, chiefly Scots and Irish English ‘Rough, riotous, noisy; disordered; helter-skelter, topsy-turvy.’; attested by BW