Reeler vs. Reel

A reeler is a mouse mutant, so named because of its characteristic "reeling" gait. This is caused by the profound underdevelopment of the mouse's cerebellum, a segment of the brain responsible for locomotion.

A reel is an object around which a length of another material (usually long and flexible) is wound for storage. Generally a reel has a cylindrical core and walls on the sides to retain the material wound around the core.

To be thrown off balance or fall back

A device, such as a cylinder, spool, or frame, that turns on an axis and is used for winding and storing rope, tape, film, or other flexible materials.

To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness

A cylindrical device attached to a fishing rod to let out or wind up the line.

To go round and round in a whirling motion

The quantity of wire, film, or other material wound on one reel.

To feel dizzy

A set of curved lawnmower blades that rotate around a bar parallel to the ground, cutting grass while moving against a stationary straight blade.

To cause to reel.

A staggering, swaying, or whirling movement.

A staggering, swaying, or whirling movement.

A moderately fast dance of Scottish origin.

A moderately fast dance of Scottish origin.

The Virginia reel.

The Virginia reel.

The music for one of these dances.

The music for one of these dances.

A handheld hammer used in a quarry for shaping granite blocks.

The grasshopper warbler.

To wind on or let out from a reel.

A person employed to wind material onto a reel.

To recover by winding on a reel

(in combination) A film consisting of the specified number of reels.

To be thrown off balance or fall back

(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.

To stagger, lurch, or sway, as from drunkenness

One who reels.

To go round and round in a whirling motion

The grasshopper warbler; - so called from its note.

To feel dizzy

someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall

To cause to reel.

a dancer of reels

A shaky or unsteady gait.

A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.

A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

(agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.

(film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

To wind on a reel.

To spin or revolve repeatedly.

To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.

To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.

To make or cause to reel.

To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

To be in shock.

To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.

(obsolete) To roll.

A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; - often called Scotch reel.

A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.

A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, - for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.

The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

To roll.

To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.

To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.

To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector

music composed for dancing a reel

winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod

a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

a lively dance of Scottish highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps

an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

walk as if unable to control one's movements;

revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis;

wind onto or off a reel