Reaper

Definitions

1. Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
   India, obsolete
2. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
3. A machine used to harvest crops.
4. Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
   abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, ellipsis, often
5. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Equivalents

Examples

“Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have⟳ spread⟳, for we saw⟳ the reapers hurrying from the fields.”

“Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak⟳ a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?””

“Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly⟳”

“Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow⟳ us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.”

“She told me she wanted to meet⟳ the reaper I had only done her a favor She didn't deserve⟳ to die⟳ But I deserved to kill⟳ her”

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