Reacher

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who reaches.

    "In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it."

  2. 2
    A device used to reach something.
  3. 3
    A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.

    "Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers."

  4. 4
    An exaggeration obsolete

    "I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that “with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as a patronymic.

Example

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"In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From reach + -er.

Etymology 2

A contraction of Richard.

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