reeler
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom its song.
Noun
editreeler (plural reelers)
- The grasshopper warbler.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editreeler (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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editDanish
editNoun
editreeler c
- indefinite plural of reel