reaper

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who helps to gather the harvest
  2. noun Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
  3. noun farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

Etymology

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.

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Synonyms

harvester

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