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reap·er R0072300 (rē′pər)n.1. One that reaps, especially a machine for harvesting grain or pulse crops.2. Reaper The Grim Reaper.reaper (ˈriːpə) n1. (Agriculture) a person who reaps or a machine for reaping2. (European Myth & Legend) the grim reaper deathreap•er (ˈri pər)
n. 1. a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine. 2. a person who reaps. 3. (cap.) Grim Reaper. [before 1000] ReaperAn implement to cut stalks of grain and leave them on the ground in untied bundles. Early machines required a man walking alongside the reaper to rake the bundles off the collecting platform and onto the ground. Later models had provisions for one or two men to ride on the reaper.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  reaper - someone who helps to gather the harvestharvesterfarm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand - a hired hand on a farmvintager - a person who harvests grapes for making wine | | 2. |  Reaper - Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scytheGrim Reaper | | 3. | reaper - farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fieldsharvesterbinder, reaper binder - a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheavescombine - harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the fieldfarm machine - a machine used in farmingheader - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon |
Translationsreap (riːp) verb to cut and gather (corn etc). The farmer is reaping the wheat. 收割 收割ˈreaper noun a person or machine that reaps. 收割機，收割者 收割机，收割者
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Grim ReaperDeath, as personified by a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. She's been in three really terrible car accidents but has miraculously avoided the Grim Reaper.See also: grim, reapergrim reaperFig. death. I think I have a few years to go yet before the grim reaper pays me a call.See also: grim, reaperthe Grim Reaper The Grim Reaper is an imaginary character who represents death. He looks like a skeleton, wears a long, black cloak with a hood, and carries a scythe (= tool for cutting grass). By giving away assets while still alive, inheritance tax can be avoided entirely by the time the Grim Reaper calls. They were sitting around, waiting for the Grim Reaper.See also: grim, reaperthe Grim Reaper a personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe.See also: grim, reapergrim reaper, theDeath. This expression is actually a combination of the older grim death, which dates from about 1600, and the artistic depiction of death with a scythe, which began somewhat later. The first appeared in a play by Philip Massinger (1583–1640), The Roman Actor, and also in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (“Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe”). The second appeared in a song from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” and in Longfellow’s poem, “The Reaper and the Flowers” (“There is a Reaper whose name is Death, and, with his sickle keen”), as well as in earlier but more obscure sources.See also: grimreaper
reaper, early farm machine drawn by draft animals or tractor and used to harvest grain. Its historical predecessors were the sickle and the cradle scythe, which are still used in some parts of the world. The earliest known reaper using animal power was described by Pliny the Elder as used in Gaul. It was pushed by an ox and consisted of a box on two wheels with a comb projecting from the front of the box. The heads of the grain were torn off by the comb and fell into the box. Modern attempts to make reaping machines began in England, where the first patent was issued (1799). The first reaper to win general acceptance was made by American inventor Cyrus McCormickMcCormick, Cyrus Hall,
1809–84, inventor of the reaper, b. Rockbridge co., Va. His father, Robert McCormick (1780–1846), had worked intermittently for over 20 years at his blacksmith shop on a reaping machine, but had given it up before Cyrus, his eldest son, began
..... Click the link for more information. in 1831. The grain cut by this reaper fell on a platform, from which it was raked by a person walking beside the machine. A number of improved reapers were developed later. The combinecombine
, agricultural machine that performs both harvesting and threshing operations. Although it was not widely used until the 1930s, the combine was in existence as early as 1830.
..... Click the link for more information. , which threshes the grain as it is reaped, has virtually replaced the reaper, although a self-raking type is still in limited use. The mowermower,
farm machine used for cutting grasses and other hay crops. Mowers, drawn by or attached to tractors, or self-propelled, have superseded scythes. The mower is essentially an adaptation of the much earlier reaper. The first commercial mower was patented in 1847.
..... Click the link for more information. , used for cutting hay, was developed from the reaper in the 19th cent. Bibliography See C. McCormick, The Century of the Reaper (1931, repr. 1971). reaper the grim reaper death reaperA prowler that GFRs files. A file removed in this way issaid to have been "reaped".reaper
Synonyms for reapernoun someone who helps to gather the harvestSynonymsRelated Words- farm worker
- farmhand
- field hand
- fieldhand
- vintager
noun Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scytheSynonymsnoun farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fieldsSynonymsRelated Words- binder
- reaper binder
- combine
- farm machine
- header
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