Reeler

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The grasshopper warbler.
  2. 2
    A person employed to wind material onto a reel.

    "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 […]"

  3. 3
    a dancer of reels wordnet
  4. 4
    A film consisting of the specified number of reels. in-compounds

    "a two-reeler"

  5. 5
    someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall wordnet
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  1. 6
    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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staggererstaggerertotterer

Example

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"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 […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From its song.

Etymology 2

From reel + -er.

Related phrases

one-reelertwine reelertwo-reelergrasshopper warbler

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