reaper
Meanings
Plural: reapers
Noun
- someone who helps to gather the harvest
- Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
- farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
- One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
- A machine used to harvest crops.
- Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
- A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
- Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
Grim Reaper, harvester
Scrabble Score: 8
reaper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordreaper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
reaper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
reaper is a valid Words With Friends word