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reaper.

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɹiːpɚ/
  1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

  2. A machine used to harvest crops.

  3. Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.

    abbreviation · alt-of · capitalized · ellipsis · often
  4. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Where this word comes from

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.

noun/ˈɹiːpɚ/
  1. Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

    India · obsolete
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