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reel man
noun
(formerly) the member of a beach life-saving team who controlled the reel on which the line was wound
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“A reel man in America, and a real Count in Italy,” laughed Alan Everard, alias Brown.
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Burgess Meredith narrates a chronicle of the life of Clark Gable, comparing the real man with the reel man.
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Syd was the son 'oo played the reel man's game; But Jim 'oo sloped an' left no word be'ind, His is the picter shinin' in 'er mind.
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