Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reeler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables: reel-er
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The grasshopper warbler.

noun

A person employed to wind material onto a reel.

noun

A film consisting of the specified number of reels.

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"a two-reeler"

Etymology

From its song.

Inflected Forms

reelers (plural)

Phrases

one-reeler twine reeler two-reeler

Synonyms

staggerer totterer

Questions

What does reeler mean?: The grasshopper warbler.
Where does reeler come from?: From its song.

How to pronounce reeler

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