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reacher|ˈriːtʃə(r)|
[f. reach v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who or that which reaches.
1594Greene & Lodge Looking Gl. G.'s Wks. (Rtldg.) 120/1 Hold in your rapier; for though I have not a long reacher, I have a short hitter. 1598Florio, Recatore, a bringer, a reacher. 1667Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 111 [Prynne] spoke to Jennings the reacher of the records that he should let him have any record. 1819Byron Juan ii. clxv, The highest reachers Of eloquence in piety and prose. 1899Daily News 9 Oct. 6/2 Shamrock..has proved herself to be a good runner, a fine reacher.
†b. A certain type of beggar. Obs.—1
1607Dekker Jests to make you Merry 35 There is a new company arising,..and these call themselues Reachers, they walke together Male and Female [etc.].
†2. An exaggerated statement, ‘stretcher’. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. x. (1614) 157 Adrian had a Vineyard eighteen miles square, which hee hedged with those slaine carkasses, as high as a man can reach (a reacher I thinke). a1661Fuller Worthies, Monmouth. iv. (1662) 51, I can hardly believe that Reacher, which another writeth of him, that with the palms of his hands he could touch his knees, though he stood upright.
3. Yachting. (See quot. 1903.)
1903Outing XLII. 646/2 Intermediate between the baby and the balloon are various jib-topsails called ‘reachers’ and numbered 1, 2, 3, according to the size. 1977P. Johnson Offshore Manual Internat. 152 Under the rule ‘jibs’ includes all fore and after headsails such as genoas, staysails, big⁓boy/bloopers, reachers and drifters. |