reaper
[ree-per]
- a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.
- a person who reaps.
- Grim Reaper.
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Origin of reaper
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Contemporary Examples
One of those is Neal Blue, the co-owner and CEO of General Atomics, the company that makes the Predator and Reaper drones.
George “The Reaper” Foyet (“Omnivore”) “The Reaper” made for perhaps the most emotionally draining episode of Criminal Minds yet.
'Criminal Minds'' 7 Most Crazed Killers: From Human Marionettes to "The Reaper"Kelsey Meany
September 25, 2013
The two principal UAVs operated by the United States are the Predator and the Reaper.
The Reaper, among its other capabilities, can be fitted to take off from and land on an aircraft carrier.
Historical Examples
Now he was a ploughman (spring), now a fisherman (summer), now a reaper (autumn).
The Book of Hallowe'enRuth Edna Kelley
The harvest-time reminded the Bretons of the garnering by that reaper, Death.
The Book of Hallowe'enRuth Edna Kelley
This is cut with the reaper and binder just after the wheat plant has flowered.
Wheat Growing in AustraliaAustralia Department of External Affairs
A reaper is to have in time of corn-harvest 2d., the first week in August, and 3d.
He was fading fast, waning with the waning summer, and conscious that the Reaper was at hand.
Mugby JunctionCharles Dickens
reaper
- a person who reaps or a machine for reaping
- the grim reaper death
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Word Origin and History for reaper
n.
Old English ripere, agent noun from reap (v.). As the name of a personification of death, from 1839.
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