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Reaper

//ˈɹiːpɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

    "Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields."

  2. 2
    Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles. India, obsolete
  3. 3
    farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields wordnet
  4. 4
    A machine used to harvest crops.
  5. 5
    someone who helps to gather the harvest wordnet
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  1. 6
    Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, ellipsis, often

    "Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”"

  2. 7
    A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Etymology

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.

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