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reachers

reachers is the plural of reacher.

Meaning of reacher

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)

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Questions about reachers

What is reachers the plural of?
Reachers is the plural of reacher.

Words near reachers in the dictionary

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

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