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reaper
CIDE DICTIONARY
reaper, n.
- One who reaps. [1913 Webster]"The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads." [1913 Webster]
- A reaping machine. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reaper, n.
1 a person who reaps.
2 a machine for reaping.
1 a person who reaps.
2 a machine for reaping.
Idiom
the Reaper (or grim Reaper) death personified.
THESAURUS
reaper
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeomanFor further exploring for "reaper" in Webster Dictionary Online