reeler
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Etymology 1 edit
From its song.
Noun edit
reeler (plural reelers)
- The grasshopper warbler.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
reeler (plural reelers)
- A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
- 2011, Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History, page 55:
- Weavers, reelers, wadders and those working in the filature refused to move, and when forced, produced inferior quality goods or ran away at the earliest opportunity, partly because they were separated from their families […]
- (in combination) A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
- a two-reeler
- (genetics) An autosomal-recessive mouse mutant in which cortical neurons are generated normally but abnormally placed, a lack of reelin causing disorganization of cortical laminar layers. It has a reeling gait.
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reeler c
- indefinite plural of reel