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Definition of Reaper

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

2. Noun. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe.

3. Noun. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields.

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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