reaper
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See also: Reaper
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]reaper (plural reapers)
- One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
- A machine used to harvest crops.
- (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:
- 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?”
- 1976, Buck Dharma (lyrics and music), “Don't Fear the Reaper”, performed by Blue Öyster Cult:
- Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly
- 1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature, page 7:
- Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.
- 2014, “Graveyard Shift”, performed by The Acacia Strain:
- She told me she wanted to meet the reaper
I had only done her a favor
She didn't deserve to die
But I deserved to kill her
- A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who reaps
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machine used for harvesting — see harvester
the Grim Reaper — see Grim Reaper
recluse spider — see recluse spider
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]reaper (plural reapers)
- (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
References
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “reaper”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
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