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reaper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reaper has 3 senses
- reaper(n = noun.person) harvester - someone who helps to gather the harvest; Array is a kind of farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand
- reaper(n = noun.person) grim reaper - Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe; Array is a kind of death
- reaper(n = noun.artifact) harvester - farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields; Array has particulars: binder, reaper binder, combine, header
has particulars: vintager
Derived form verb reap1
is a kind of farm machine
Derived form verb reap1
CIDE DICTIONARY
reaper, n.
- One who reaps. [1913 Webster]"The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads." [1913 Webster]
- A reaping machine. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reaper, n.
1 a person who reaps.
2 a machine for reaping.
1 a person who reaps.
2 a machine for reaping.
Idiom
the Reaper (or grim Reaper) death personified.
THESAURUS
reaper
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman
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