reaper
noun
a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine.
reapers
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pluralof reaper.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
