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Reaper Common

Reaper has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who helps to gather the harvest

"The family hired a reaper to help gather the wheat before the storm arrived."

2

Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe

"The ancient legend warns that when the reaper arrives on his pale horse, no soul can escape his grim destiny."

3

farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

"The rusty reaper sat idle in the corner of the barn after finishing the last field of wheat before the frost arrived."

4

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

"The local reaper spent all morning cutting down the golden wheat before heading home for lunch."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
farmhand farm machine
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
vintager binder combine header
Rhyming Words
per rper aper xper oper lper leper hyper riper ndper esper vaper raper duper afper neper japer roper hiper phper
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