reeler
English
Etymology 1
From its song.
Noun
reeler (plural reelers)
- A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
- 2011, Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History (page 55)
- 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)
- (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. It has a reeling gait.
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