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reeler

reeler noun: the grasshopper warbler.

Noun (1)

reeler (plural reelers)

  1. The grasshopper warbler.

Noun (2)

reeler (plural reelers)

  1. 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 […]2011, Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History, page 55
  2. (in-compounds) A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
    • a two-reeler
  3. 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.

Forms of reeler

pluralreelers

Origin of reeler

From its song.

From reel + -er.

Words formed from reeler

Questions about reeler

What does reeler mean?
Reeler means the grasshopper warbler.
What part of speech is reeler?
Reeler is a noun.
What is the plural of reeler?
The plural of reeler is reelers.

Words near reeler in the dictionary

  1. reeled
  2. reeled in
  3. reeled off
  4. reeled out
  5. reeled up
  6. reeler
  7. reelers
  8. reelest
  9. reeleth
  10. reelevate
  11. reelevated

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