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reelless

reelless adjective: without a reel.

Adjective

reelless (not comparable)

  1. Without a reel.
    • The sometimes-wealthy Cotton could afford such luxury, because the problem with a reelless rod and long line was in landing the fish.1974, Arnold Gingrich, The fishing in print: a guided tour through five centuries of angling literature

Origin of reelless

From reel + -less.

Questions about reelless

What does reelless mean?
Reelless means without a reel.
What part of speech is reelless?
Reelless is an adjective.

Words near reelless in the dictionary

  1. reeling off
  2. reeling out
  3. reeling up
  4. reelingly
  5. reelings
  6. reelless
  7. reelman
  8. reelmen
  9. reels
  10. reels in
  11. reels off

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