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reapers

reapers is the plural of reaper.

Meaning of reaper

Noun (1)

reaper (plural reapers)

  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.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. A machine used to harvest crops.
  3. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Noun (2)

reaper (plural reapers)

  1. (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

Phrases with reapers

Questions about reapers

What is reapers the plural of?
Reapers is the plural of reaper.

Words near reapers in the dictionary

  1. reaped what one has sown
  2. reaped what one sowed
  3. reaper
  4. reaper-binder
  5. reaper-binders
  6. reapers
  7. reapest
  8. reapeth
  9. reaphook
  10. reaphooks
  11. reaping

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