reeler

plural reelers

1. The grasshopper warbler.

plural reelers

1. A person employed to wind material onto a reel.

   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

2. in compoundsA film consisting of the specified number of reels.

   a two-reeler

3. biologyAn 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.