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Definition of Reelers
1. reeler [n] - See also: reeler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reelers
Literary usage of Reelers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The most improved reeling processes and highly skilled reelers are employed, but
the export output cuts no commercial figure of importance at this writing ..."
2. Original Papers: Correspondence, Trustees, General Oglethorpe and Others by James Edward Oglethorpe, Allen Daniel Candler, William J. Northen, Lucian Lamar Knight (1916)
"The necessity of having a number of well Instructed reelers. for the best Quality.
which are of a hard, weighty and good Substance— Two Shillings and three ..."
3. Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry: With Some Account of Its Natural History by Thomas Wardle (1904)
"For four-skein reelers, per day 4 annas. One batteuse for two reelers... i.
„ Boy for turning ... ... ... 2 „ 7} annas, as against the French cost. i reeler ..."
4. Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the by Edward Young (1875)
"SPINNING : LINEN AND FLAX MANUFACTURE. BELFAST AND NEIGHBORHOOD. Occupation.
Preparers for spinning, women. Spinners, women reelers, women Hackle rs, ..."
5. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1857)
"The same results having been witnessed here by some reelers from Sardinia, they
have, for the purpose of working my system, and under my license, ..."
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