reaper
SubstantivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈɹiːpɚ//
One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
Substantiv
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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.
- 2
A machine used to harvest crops.
- 3
A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
- 4
Variante von Grim ReaperEllipsis of Grim Reaper.
Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”
Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly
Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.
She told me she wanted to meet the reaper I had only done her a favor She didn't deserve to die But I deserved to kill her
Herkunft
From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.
Substantiv
- 1
veraltetEach of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.
Formen
- Plural
- reapers
reaper · One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
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