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reaper

reaper

7 5.5
A person who cuts and gathers crops at harvest, often by hand
  • noun
  • /ˈriːpər/
  • Archaic
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  • Is the grizzly reaper mowing?

Examples

  • The lady and the reaper

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  • I'm a reaper from the stars.

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  • But now is the end of days... ...and I am the reaper.

  • Because we the people are the ultimate reaper of failed presidents.

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  • For everything there is a season; the reapers and the harvest aren't quite ready yet.

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  • Go on, you Reapers!

  • The underside of that Reaper drone is fixed with a big-ass antenna, snarfing the hardware ID of anything that broadcasts.

  • 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn.

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  • The reaper cut down the golden wheat in the warm afternoon sun.

  • At harvest time, the skilled reaper worked diligently to collect the ripe corn.

Synonyms

picker
vsreaper
20 1.4

A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit

covers full harvest of crops at season end rather than selective picking
harvester
vsreaper
9 2.0

A person or machine that collects crops when they are ready

refers specifically to a person gathering by hand or simple tools not machines
cropper
vsreaper
1 7.5

A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants

is about gathering crops specifically not farming or owning land
sickler
vsreaper
  • Archaic
9.9

A person who cuts grain by hand with a sickle

gathers crops by hand or simple tools rather than using one specific traditional tool

Compounds

Grim Reaper
  • Literature
11 7.6

A figure who represents death, shown as a skeleton with a scythe

reaper binder
  • Archaic
9.9

A machine that cuts grain and ties it into bundles

How Big

combine
6 6.1
harvester
9 2.0
reaper
  • Archaic
7 5.5
scythe
12 6.7
sickle
21 5.6

Surface Forms

reaper singular
reapers plural

Morphology

reaper = reap (transparent) = reap + er

Agentive formation from the verb 'reap' using '-er', meaning 'one who reaps', which is a productive and clear pattern.

Etymology

Reaper comes from the verb reap, meaning 'to cut and gather grain'. The ending -er means 'one who does something', so a reaper originally meant a person who cut and gathered the harvest, and it still has that meaning today.