English Explanatory Dictionary

reeler

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The grasshopper warbler.
noun
  1. A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
  2. A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
  3. 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.

Word forms

reeler reelers

Etymology

From its song.

Derived words

one-reeler twine reeler two-reeler
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