reaper
Origin of reaper
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How to use reaper in a sentence
After all, “drone” refers to any unmanned aircraft with an autopilot, not just Predators and Reapers.
A throng of young girls, gleaning, followed the reapers and raked up the ears that fell.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerThe vast steam-threshers are mightily devouring what their servants, the monster steam-reapers, have gleaned for them.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete | Gilbert ParkerIn some fields the reapers were at work, and the harvest was going on with true French gaiety.
There are certain exceptions to the method of spiders; the reapers, little balls mounted on immense legs, act by cavalage.
The Natural Philosophy of Love | Remy de Gourmont
O lonely island of the Rhine,—where seed was never sown, What harvest lay upon thy sands, by those strong reapers thrown?
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of Education
British Dictionary definitions for reaper
/ (ˈriːpə) /
a person who reaps or a machine for reaping
the grim reaper death
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