Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who reaps; one who cuts grain with a sickle or other implement or machine; hence, one who gathers in the fruits of his own or others' labor or work.
  • noun A machine for cutting grain; a reaping-machine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who reaps.
  • noun A reaping machine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who reaps.
  • noun A machine used to harvest crops.
  • noun Reaper Shortened form of "The Grim Reaper", the angel of death.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
  • noun someone who helps to gather the harvest
  • noun farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

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Examples

  • I like the word reaper, but I don’t know what a reaper is here.

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  • July 15th, 2007 at 9: 24 pm there so cute can you send me one (reaper is joking but still thinks to babies are very cute babies) joyce Says:

    Newborn Baby Hedgehogs 2006

  • I am the one known as the reaper of the shadows, the master of madness ... and maybe a tad on the yaoi tease

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  • This new weapon, called the reaper, is on the way.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007 2007

  • Sometimes a black mask is fastened on the reaper's face and he is dressed in woman's clothes; or if the reaper is a woman, she is dressed in man's clothes.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • ” Sometimes a black mask is fastened on the reaper’s face and he is dressed in woman’s clothes; or if the reaper is a woman, she is dressed in man’s clothes.

    Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 2. Killing the Corn-spirit 1922

  • Sometimes a black mask is fastened on the reaper's face and he is dressed in woman's clothes; or if the reaper is a woman, she is dressed in man's clothes.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • ` The sower is one person, and the reaper is another. '

    Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John Richard Francis Weymouth 1862

  • And a newfangled machine called a reaper harvested crops faster than an entire crew of workers, be they free men or slaves.

    Gizmodo Bob Zeller 2010

  • That in the kingdom of the Messiah there shall be great plenty, an abundance of all good things that the country produces (v. 13): The ploughman shall overtake the reaper, that is, there shall be such a plentiful harvest every year, and so much corn to be gathered in, that it shall last all summer, even till autumn, when it is time to begin to plough again; and in like manner the vintage shall continue till seed-time, and there shall be such abundance of grapes that even the mountains shall drop new wine into the vessels of the grape-gatherers, and the hills that were dry and barren shall be moistened and shall melt with the fatness or mellowness (as we call it) of the soil.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

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  • "You might be a king

    Or a little street sweeper

    But sooner or later

    You'll dance with the reaper...

    Get down with your bad self!"

    -Death

    October 11, 2007