reaper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
    — Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
  2. Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles. India,obsolete
  3. A machine used to harvest crops.
  4. Ellipsis of Grim Reaper. abbreviation,alt-of,capitalized,ellipsis,often
    — 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?”
  5. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

词形变化

reapers plural reapers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Grim Reaper Norwood reaper reaper-binder reaper-thresher
相关词
reap

词源

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.
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