Definition of Reaper

1. Noun. Someone who helps to gather the harvest.

Exact synonyms: Harvester
Generic synonyms: Farm Worker, Farmhand, Field Hand, Fieldhand
Specialized synonyms: Vintager
Derivative terms: Harvest, Reap

2. Noun. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe.
Exact synonyms: Grim Reaper
Generic synonyms: Death

3. Noun. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields.
Exact synonyms: Harvester
Specialized synonyms: Binder, Reaper Binder, Combine, Header
Generic synonyms: Farm Machine
Derivative terms: Harvest, Reap

Definition of Reaper

1. n. One who reaps.

Definition of Reaper

1. Noun. One who reaps. ¹

2. Noun. A machine used to harvest crops. ¹

3. Noun. '''Reaper''' Shortened form of "The Grim Reaper", the angel of death. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reaper

1. one that reaps [n -S] - See also: reaps

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reaper

reanoint
reanointed
reanointing
reanoints
reans
reanswer
reanswered
reanswering
reanswers
reap
reap-silver
reap hook
reap what one sows
reapable
reaped
reaper (current term)
reaper binder
reapers
reapest
reapeth
reaphook
reaphooks
reaping
reaping hook
reapparel
reappear
reappearance
reappearances
reappeared
reappearing

Literary usage of Reaper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leading American Inventors by George Iles (1912)
"Had he condemned the principle of my reaper, it might never have gone a step further. ... reaper in its later developments. Almost incredibly loose was the ..."

2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1850)
"This reaper has uniformly been warranted to cut one and a half to two acres ... Perhaps the best evidence of the satisfaction given by the reaper has been ..."

3. The Genesee Farmer (1849)
"The reaper will be delivered In Buffalo or Rochester—$30 payable nn delivery, and $80 on the let of December thereafter, with interi'st j or for $105, cash, ..."

4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1839)
"THERE is a reaper, whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at ... My Lord has need of these flowers gay," The reaper said, ..."

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