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Definition of Reeler
1. Noun. Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.
Generic synonyms: Footer, Pedestrian, Walker
Derivative terms: Reel, Stagger, Totter
2. Noun. A dancer of reels.
Definition of Reeler
1. n. One who reels.
Definition of Reeler
1. Noun. The grasshopper warbler. ¹
2. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reeler
1. one that reels [n -S] - See also: reels
Medical Definition of Reeler
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1. One who reels.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reeler
Literary usage of Reeler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1879)
"I was going through Shore-ditch, when a reeler from Hackney, who knew me well,
came up and said, - I am going to run the rule over (search) you. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1879)
"I was going through Shoreditch, when a reeler from Hackney, who knew me well,
came up and said, " I am going to run the rule over (search) you. ..."
3. British Manufacturing Industries by George Phillips Bevan (1876)
"nativo reeler frequently turns the reel as well as tends the basin, but in modern
filatures not only is the reel turned by steam, but an attendant prepares ..."
4. Argot and Slang: A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (1889)
"I was going through Shoreditch, when a reeler from Hackney, who knew me well,
came up and said, " I am going to run the rule over (search) you. ..."
5. Modern Flax, Hemp and Jute Spinning and Twisting: A Practical Handbook for by Herbert R. Carter (1907)
"The correct knot to use is, as we have said, the weaver's knot, or intersecting
loop knot, and an expert reeler can tie this knot as quickly as another can ..."
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