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plural reapers
One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping. quotations examples
Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
A machine used to harvest crops. examples
(often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. quotations examples
Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly
1976, Buck Dharma (lyrics and music), “Don't Fear the Reaper”, performed by Blue Öyster Cult
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.
1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature, page 7
The recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.). examples
(India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.