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Noun: reaper  ree-pu(r)
  1. Someone who helps to gather the harvest
    "The reapers worked long hours to bring in the wheat before the rain";
    - harvester
     
  2. Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
    "The farmer drove the reaper through the cornfield";
    - harvester
Noun: Reaper
  1. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
    - Grim Reaper

Derived forms: reapers

Type of: Death, farm machine, farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand, rouseabout [Austral]

Encyclopedia: Reaper