reaper
/ˈɹiːpɚ/ noun C1- One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
- A machine used to harvest crops.
- A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).
Plural reapers
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He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
Binders, reapers' steam and hand plows, drills,
The cart must be tastefully ornamented; and if you and I dress ourselves as Neapolitan reapers, we may get up a striking tableau, after the manner of that splendid picture by Léopold Robert.
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