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noun
One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A machine used to harvest crops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, ellipsis, often
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noun
A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, obsolete
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noun
farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: harvester
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Broader terms: farm machine
Narrower terms: binder, reaper binder, combine, header
noun
Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Grim Reaper
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Broader terms: Death
noun
someone who helps to gather the harvest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: harvester
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Broader terms: farmhand, fieldhand, field hand, farm worker
Narrower terms: vintager
History
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.
Across languages
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