noun
Meaning 1
The grasshopper warbler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
reeler
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Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Meaning 2
A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-compounds
Examples
- a two-reeler
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
a dancer of reels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: folk dancer
noun
Meaning 6
someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: staggerer, totterer
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Broader terms: pedestrian, walker, footer
History
Etymology
From its song.
From reel + -er.