Etymology
Origin of reeler
Example Sentences
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The women reelers in the silk filatures of Shanghai get from eight to eleven cents for eleven hours of work.
From Project Gutenberg
Better stockpile the popcorn; this is a multiple reeler.
From Time
It's so possible for you to collect all these marbles, Jimmy—reelers, every one of them!—if you'll only start now and do nothing else for the next thirty or forty years.
From Project Gutenberg
Biddy and Sally, as every one expected, were far ahead of the rest, but so even in their spinning that the reelers could not for the life of them declare which was the better.
From Project Gutenberg
There isn’t a power reeler or loom in the town, nor yet a loom of the Jacquard type.
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