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reacher

reacher noun: a person who reaches.

Noun

reacher (plural reachers)

  1. A person who reaches.
    • In their own lives they would not be reachers after crowns, and knew it.1985, Gordon Williams, Macbeth: text and performance, page 17
  2. A device used to reach something.
  3. A sail, a kind of asymmetrical spinnaker.
    • Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers.2005, J. Howard Williams, Love at First Sight: A Lifetime of Sailing on Galveston Bay
  4. (obsolete) An exaggeration
    • 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"1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Proper noun capitalized: Reacher

Reacher

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Forms of reacher

pluralreachers

Origin of reacher

From reach + -er.

A contraction of Richard.

Questions about reacher

What does reacher mean?
Reacher means a person who reaches.
What part of speech is reacher?
Reacher can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of reacher?
The plural of reacher is reachers.

Words near reacher in the dictionary

  1. reached for the stars
  2. reached out
  3. reached past
  4. reached rock bottom
  5. reachedst
  6. reacher
  7. reachers
  8. reaches
  9. reaches across the aisle
  10. reaches down
  11. reaches for

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