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Reeling vs Beeling - What's the difference?

reeling | beeling |

As nouns the difference between reeling and beeling

is that reeling is the motion of something that reels while beeling is a small, young, or juvenile bee.

As a verb reeling

is .

reeling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that reels.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings , and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

    Anagrams

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    beeling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, young, or juvenile bee.
  • *1901 , British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser - Volume 29 - Page 354:
    • The "bee-ling " is now at its best, spotted here and there with large patches of "crow-ling" (Erica cinerca) and smaller patches of the beautiful pink waxlike "wire-ling" (Erica tetralix).
  • *1906 , Harper's magazine - Volume 113 - Page 593:
    • Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.
  • *1907 , Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen :
    • [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.