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Heeler vs Reeler - What's the difference?

heeler | reeler |

As nouns the difference between heeler and reeler

is that heeler is a gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs while reeler is the grasshopper warbler or reeler can be (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.

heeler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
  • A quick runner.
  • * 1891 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
  • *:Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
  • *:Brought some horses, real heelers ,
  • *:Came and put us through.
  • (US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
  • * The Century
    • The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.

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    * English agent nouns

    reeler

    English

    Etymology 1

    From its note.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The grasshopper warbler.

    • Etymology 2

    , from its reeling gait.

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia reeler)
  • (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.
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