reelern.¹

Brit.

/ˈriːlə/, U.S.

/ˈrilər/

Forms: see reel v.² and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reel v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < reel v.² + -er suffix¹. In sense 3, the bird is so called on account of its call resembling the sound of a reel; compare reel-bird n.

a. A person who reels or winds something (as yarn, rope, silk, etc.) upon a reel or reels, esp. as part of a manufacturing process; a manufacturer or business specializing in this. Also: a person employed to operate or supervise a reeling machine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > on reel > one who

reeler1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reeler or winder of yarne.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Garde Faire la garde, to make fast; (a phrase vsed by reelers, or winders of yarne).

1675 G. Carew Severall Considerations offered to Parl. 2 Pore men, women, and children, are usually imployed, and sett at worke by every 100. waight of English woole (viz) Combers, Spinners, Reelers, Weavors..&c.

1727 M. Dutton Office & Authority Justice of Peace (ed. 2) 225 All reeled Linnen-Yarn which shall be found in the Custody of any Spinner or Reeler..which shall not be Reeled according to Law, shall be liable to the like Fortfeiture.

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 165 On the first Stage were the Teazer, Carder, Rover, Spinner, and Reeler of the Cotton-wool.

1792 W. Borrow in M. F. G.-B. Giner & M. Montgomery Knaresborough Workhouse Daybk. (2003) 130 Hinderson is Reler for them.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 395 The slubs which may have been left in the silk by the negligence of the foreign reeler.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 175 When the winder or reeler has purchased the cocoons [etc.].

1891 Textile Industries 12 Dec. 61/1 However careless the reeler may be, the reel is stopped instantly.

1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 8/3 Miss Wadsworth..said that she was seventeen years old on February 14 last, and was employed as reeler in a cotton mill.

1946 G. C. Allen Short Econ. Hist. Mod. Japan iv. 63 The larger reelers were beginning to exercise a greater degree of control over egg production and cocoon raising.

1999 Business Line (Nexis) 29 June The price of raw silk has nosedived, impacting adversely traders, reelers and farmers.

†b. Nautical. A member of a ship's crew responsible for operating the reel for the vessel's log line. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1893 L. Kellern Soldiers at Sea 50 Told off as Reelers, to haul in the reel, which tests the ship's rate of progress.

2. A device for winding yarn, paper, etc., on to a reel or reels; a reeling machine. Now chiefly Papermaking.In early use: (apparently) an instrument used in hand-spinning; a reel; a spindle.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]

reeler1598

driver1659

rubber1747

heading machine1795

bruiser1809

finisher1835

stripper1835

physionotype1836

rotary1836

tetraspaston1842

netting-machine1846

speeder1847

dresser1855

spacer1857

starcher1862

bronzing liquid, machine1865

finishing machine1869

grader1869

brain machine1872

peanut roaster1872

bending machine1874

screw-machine1876

tire-upsetting-machine1877

buncher?1881

flax-breaker1889

oscillator1889

fluoroscope1893

fluorometer1897

mucker1916

spray dryer1921

paver1926

teabagger1940

burster1950

icemaker1953

laminator1958

slipform (concrete) paver1958

extruder1959

Zamboni1965

manipulator1968

wave machine1968

pipelayer1969

walking machine1971

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > on reel > instrument for

reelOE

reeler1598

reeling stick1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reeler or reeling sticke.

1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. M Vbaldo...I haue not spittle enough to wett my fingers When I draw my flax from my distaffe. Ricardo. Nor I strength To raise my hand to the top of my reeler.

1658 in Southold Town Rec. (1882) I. 449 An Inventorie of the personall estate whereof Elizabeth Payne widdow dyed possest [includes]:..a wheele & reeler.

1853 J. B. Felt Customs New Eng. 54 Since the factories of our country have done the work which they used to do, reelers are scarcely ever seen in any of our households.

1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xvi. 246 Many defects in the paper..will..cause a break at the reeler, owing to the high tension of the paper as it passes from the roll to the reeler bar.

1952 F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making xvii. 246 The reeler is equipped with a yardage counter and may have four winding drums.

1997 Pulp & Paper Europe (Nexis) Mar. 15 Jagenberg supplied all the winders including two Vari-Tops reelers, a Vari-Roll reeling station for re-reeling coated papers and a Vari-Step re-reeler for uncoated papers.

3. English regional (eastern). The grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia, whose song is a high-pitched mechanical-sounding trill. Also (with distinguishing word): Savi's warbler, L. luscinioides. Cf. reel-bird n., reeling n.² 2. Now historical and rare.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler)

grasshopper lark1766

grasshopper warbler1790

Savi's warbler1843

reel-bird1856

reeler1866

Pallas's warbler1881

mowing-machine bird1887

1866 H. Stevenson Birds Norfolk I. 107 It was known to the sedge-cutters as the ‘reeler’, through a fancied resemblance between the sound of its song and the noise made by a fishing line running off the reel.

1875 J. E. Harting Our Summer Migrants 88 The fen-men used to distinguish it from the Grasshopper Warbler by its note, calling the commoner species ‘the reeler’, the other ‘the night reeler’, from the resemblance of its note to the whirr of the reel used by the wool-spinners.

1904 A. H. Evans in J. E. Marr & A. E. Shipley Handbk. Nat. Hist. Cambridgeshire 78 There can be little doubt that it [sc. Savi's warbler] had long been known—though probably mainly by its note—to many of the marshmen, under the name of ‘Brown–’, ‘Red–’, or ‘Night-Reeler’ as a different bird from the Grasshopper Warbler, or ‘Reeler’ proper.

1942 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 10 1003 Names suggested by a noise made by the bird... English examples: reeler (grasshopper-warbler), saw-sharpener (great tit).

4. Metallurgy. Any of various machines used to straighten or burnish metal strips, pipes, etc., by the action of moving rollers. Also: a machine which rolls up strip metal by this means. Cf. reeling n.² 3.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > rolling equipment

rolling mill1616

merchant train1861

merchant mill1867

merchant rolls1875

pilger mill1902

strip mill1910

reeler1923

1923 F. W. Harbord & J. W. Hall Metall. Steel (ed. 7) II. xxiii. 460 The reeler is also employed without a mandril to straighten tubes.

1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 280 Power reelers are also employed to apply tension to the metal as it is rolled.

1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 15 (advt.) Black and bright reeler straightening 12–75mm. Processors of steel and all types of metals.

Compounds

reelerman n. Chiefly Papermaking a person who operates or supervises a reeler (sense 2); cf. reel man n. at reel n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §518 Reeler (paper mill), reelerman.

1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xvi. 247 The yardage is kept on two different tickets by the reelerman.

1972 Classif. of Occup. (Dept. Employment) III. 102/2 Winder operator... Other titles include..Reelerman.

2003 Grimsby Evening News (Nexis) 6 Oct. 11 Harry Liles (81), of Yarborough Road, was reelerman at the mill for 35 years.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

reelern.²

Brit.

/ˈriːlə/, U.S.

/ˈrilər/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reel v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < reel v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

colloquial. rare.

1. A person who reels, sways, or staggers, esp. as a result of intoxication; a drunken person.In quot. 2005 with punning allusion to rock 'n' roller n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness > one who is drunk

noll1598

reeler1657

intoxicate1760

drunk1852

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > reeling or staggering > one who reels

reeler1657

titter-totter1699

1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady iii. ii. 31 This London Wine is a parlous Liquour... Another Glass on't had prov'd me a Reeler, a Cotquean.

1799 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. III. 435/2 A Staggerer, Tumbler, Reeler.

1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary xvi. 107 I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his jerry and boned the clock, which was a red one, but I was spotted by a copper who claimed me.

1960 A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 76 Though every firework has been banned, Student or reeler from a band Flung it.

2005 Mirror (Nexis) 20 Apr. 7 Rock and reeler Pete Doherty does the can can—can of beer in hand variety—as he twirls in the street after another all-hours bash.

2. A drinking spree; a drunken night out. to cop a reeler: to get drunk.

ΚΠ

1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too v. 60 Make him swear blind he'll be quiet as he comes up the stairs, see? Of course, if he's copped a reeler you'll have to skip it.

1950 J. Alexander in Sat. Evening Post 1 Apr. 75/2 He begins to take his drinks in gulps, and before he realises it he is off on a reeler.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† reelern.³

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peeler n.³; reel v.¹, reel v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of peeler n.³, after either reel v.¹ or reel v.², or perhaps independently < either reel v.¹ or reel v.² + -er suffix¹. However, none of the explanations suggested for such derivations in slang dictionaries seem entirely convincing. One suggestion is that the word refers to a policeman's supposedly typical rolling gait (A. Barrère and C. G. Leland in Dict. Slang, Jargon, & Cant II. (1890) 175; compare reel v.¹ 8a, and also reeler n.²). Alternatively, J. Green suggests (in Cassell's Dict. Slang (ed. 1 1998) at Reeler n.¹), that a policeman is so called either because he is often ‘reeling drunk’ (compare reel v.¹ 3b) or because he ‘reels in’, i.e. arrests, criminals (compare reel v.² 3b(a), which is however first attested slightly later).

Criminals' slang. Obsolete.

A policeman.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1879 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 502/1 A reeler came to the cell and cross-kiddled (questioned) me.

1888 G. R. Sims in Referee 12 Feb. 7/4 I guyed, but the reeler he gave me hot beef.

1894 A. Morrison Martin Hewitt, Investigator v. 232 It's a fair cop, and I'm in for it. You got at me nicely, lending me three quid. I never knew a reeler do that before.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

> see also

also refers to : -reelercomb. form

n.¹1598

n.²1657

n.³1879

单词	reeler
释义	reelern.¹ Brit. /ˈriːlə/, U.S. /ˈrilər/ Forms: see reel v.² and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reel v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < reel v.² + -er suffix¹. In sense 3, the bird is so called on account of its call resembling the sound of a reel; compare reel-bird n. 1. a. A person who reels or winds something (as yarn, rope, silk, etc.) upon a reel or reels, esp. as part of a manufacturing process; a manufacturer or business specializing in this. Also: a person employed to operate or supervise a reeling machine. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > on reel > one who reeler1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reeler or winder of yarne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Garde Faire la garde, to make fast; (a phrase vsed by reelers, or winders of yarne). 1675 G. Carew Severall Considerations offered to Parl. 2 Pore men, women, and children, are usually imployed, and sett at worke by every 100. waight of English woole (viz) Combers, Spinners, Reelers, Weavors..&c. 1727 M. Dutton Office & Authority Justice of Peace (ed. 2) 225 All reeled Linnen-Yarn which shall be found in the Custody of any Spinner or Reeler..which shall not be Reeled according to Law, shall be liable to the like Fortfeiture. 1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) III. 165 On the first Stage were the Teazer, Carder, Rover, Spinner, and Reeler of the Cotton-wool. 1792 W. Borrow in M. F. G.-B. Giner & M. Montgomery Knaresborough Workhouse Daybk. (2003) 130 Hinderson is Reler for them. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 395 The slubs which may have been left in the silk by the negligence of the foreign reeler. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 175 When the winder or reeler has purchased the cocoons [etc.]. 1891 Textile Industries 12 Dec. 61/1 However careless the reeler may be, the reel is stopped instantly. 1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 8/3 Miss Wadsworth..said that she was seventeen years old on February 14 last, and was employed as reeler in a cotton mill. 1946 G. C. Allen Short Econ. Hist. Mod. Japan iv. 63 The larger reelers were beginning to exercise a greater degree of control over egg production and cocoon raising. 1999 Business Line (Nexis) 29 June The price of raw silk has nosedived, impacting adversely traders, reelers and farmers. †b. Nautical. A member of a ship's crew responsible for operating the reel for the vessel's log line. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1893 L. Kellern Soldiers at Sea 50 Told off as Reelers, to haul in the reel, which tests the ship's rate of progress. 2. A device for winding yarn, paper, etc., on to a reel or reels; a reeling machine. Now chiefly Papermaking.In early use: (apparently) an instrument used in hand-spinning; a reel; a spindle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > on reel > instrument for reelOE reeler1598 reeling stick1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reeler or reeling sticke. 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. M Vbaldo...I haue not spittle enough to wett my fingers When I draw my flax from my distaffe. Ricardo. Nor I strength To raise my hand to the top of my reeler. 1658 in Southold Town Rec. (1882) I. 449 An Inventorie of the personall estate whereof Elizabeth Payne widdow dyed possest [includes]:..a wheele & reeler. 1853 J. B. Felt Customs New Eng. 54 Since the factories of our country have done the work which they used to do, reelers are scarcely ever seen in any of our households. 1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xvi. 246 Many defects in the paper..will..cause a break at the reeler, owing to the high tension of the paper as it passes from the roll to the reeler bar. 1952 F. H. Norris Paper & Paper Making xvii. 246 The reeler is equipped with a yardage counter and may have four winding drums. 1997 Pulp & Paper Europe (Nexis) Mar. 15 Jagenberg supplied all the winders including two Vari-Tops reelers, a Vari-Roll reeling station for re-reeling coated papers and a Vari-Step re-reeler for uncoated papers. 3. English regional (eastern). The grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia, whose song is a high-pitched mechanical-sounding trill. Also (with distinguishing word): Savi's warbler, L. luscinioides. Cf. reel-bird n., reeling n.² 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler) grasshopper lark1766 grasshopper warbler1790 Savi's warbler1843 reel-bird1856 reeler1866 Pallas's warbler1881 mowing-machine bird1887 1866 H. Stevenson Birds Norfolk I. 107 It was known to the sedge-cutters as the ‘reeler’, through a fancied resemblance between the sound of its song and the noise made by a fishing line running off the reel. 1875 J. E. Harting Our Summer Migrants 88 The fen-men used to distinguish it from the Grasshopper Warbler by its note, calling the commoner species ‘the reeler’, the other ‘the night reeler’, from the resemblance of its note to the whirr of the reel used by the wool-spinners. 1904 A. H. Evans in J. E. Marr & A. E. Shipley Handbk. Nat. Hist. Cambridgeshire 78 There can be little doubt that it [sc. Savi's warbler] had long been known—though probably mainly by its note—to many of the marshmen, under the name of ‘Brown–’, ‘Red–’, or ‘Night-Reeler’ as a different bird from the Grasshopper Warbler, or ‘Reeler’ proper. 1942 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 10 1003 Names suggested by a noise made by the bird... English examples: reeler (grasshopper-warbler), saw-sharpener (great tit). 4. Metallurgy. Any of various machines used to straighten or burnish metal strips, pipes, etc., by the action of moving rollers. Also: a machine which rolls up strip metal by this means. Cf. reeling n.² 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > rolling equipment rolling mill1616 merchant train1861 merchant mill1867 merchant rolls1875 pilger mill1902 strip mill1910 reeler1923 1923 F. W. Harbord & J. W. Hall Metall. Steel (ed. 7) II. xxiii. 460 The reeler is also employed without a mandril to straighten tubes. 1958 A. D. Merriman Dict. Metall. 280 Power reelers are also employed to apply tension to the metal as it is rolled. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 15 (advt.) Black and bright reeler straightening 12–75mm. Processors of steel and all types of metals. Compounds reelerman n. Chiefly Papermaking a person who operates or supervises a reeler (sense 2); cf. reel man n. at reel n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §518 Reeler (paper mill), reelerman. 1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xvi. 247 The yardage is kept on two different tickets by the reelerman. 1972 Classif. of Occup. (Dept. Employment) III. 102/2 Winder operator... Other titles include..Reelerman. 2003 Grimsby Evening News (Nexis) 6 Oct. 11 Harry Liles (81), of Yarborough Road, was reelerman at the mill for 35 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reelern.² Brit. /ˈriːlə/, U.S. /ˈrilər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reel v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < reel v.¹ + -er suffix¹. colloquial. rare. 1. A person who reels, sways, or staggers, esp. as a result of intoxication; a drunken person.In quot. 2005 with punning allusion to rock 'n' roller n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness > one who is drunk noll1598 reeler1657 intoxicate1760 drunk1852 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > reeling or staggering > one who reels reeler1657 titter-totter1699 1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady iii. ii. 31 This London Wine is a parlous Liquour... Another Glass on't had prov'd me a Reeler, a Cotquean. 1799 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. III. 435/2 A Staggerer, Tumbler, Reeler. 1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary xvi. 107 I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting a red slang. I broke off his jerry and boned the clock, which was a red one, but I was spotted by a copper who claimed me. 1960 A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 76 Though every firework has been banned, Student or reeler from a band Flung it. 2005 Mirror (Nexis) 20 Apr. 7 Rock and reeler Pete Doherty does the can can—can of beer in hand variety—as he twirls in the street after another all-hours bash. 2. A drinking spree; a drunken night out. to cop a reeler: to get drunk. ΚΠ 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too v. 60 Make him swear blind he'll be quiet as he comes up the stairs, see? Of course, if he's copped a reeler you'll have to skip it. 1950 J. Alexander in Sat. Evening Post 1 Apr. 75/2 He begins to take his drinks in gulps, and before he realises it he is off on a reeler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † reelern.³ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peeler n.³; reel v.¹, reel v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of peeler n.³, after either reel v.¹ or reel v.², or perhaps independently < either reel v.¹ or reel v.² + -er suffix¹. However, none of the explanations suggested for such derivations in slang dictionaries seem entirely convincing. One suggestion is that the word refers to a policeman's supposedly typical rolling gait (A. Barrère and C. G. Leland in Dict. Slang, Jargon, & Cant II. (1890) 175; compare reel v.¹ 8a, and also reeler n.²). Alternatively, J. Green suggests (in Cassell's Dict. Slang (ed. 1 1998) at Reeler n.¹), that a policeman is so called either because he is often ‘reeling drunk’ (compare reel v.¹ 3b) or because he ‘reels in’, i.e. arrests, criminals (compare reel v.² 3b(a), which is however first attested slightly later). Criminals' slang. Obsolete. A policeman. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1879 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 502/1 A reeler came to the cell and cross-kiddled (questioned) me. 1888 G. R. Sims in Referee 12 Feb. 7/4 I guyed, but the reeler he gave me hot beef. 1894 A. Morrison Martin Hewitt, Investigator v. 232 It's a fair cop, and I'm in for it. You got at me nicely, lending me three quid. I never knew a reeler do that before. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > see also also refers to : -reelercomb. form < n.¹1598n.²1657n.³1879 see also
随便看	from the very cradle from the very first from the want of from the way from the womb to the tomb from the woodward from the word go from the, one's elbow from then in from then on in from thence from there in from there on in from this day etc forward from this day forward from this day time forward from this here out from this out from this that out from this time day forth from this time etc forth from this time forth from this, from hence, from now, and so forward from this, from hence, now, and so forward from time out of mind

reelern.1

Compounds

reelern.2

† reelern.3

> see also

reelern.¹

reelern.²

† reelern.³